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News Letter
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MYTH UNDER ANALYSIS:
SUGAR IS CAUSAL TO CARDIOVASCULAR AILMENTS
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Following FDA’s 1988 affirmation
that sugar was Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS),
several major nutrition policy statements accepted and
incorporated FDA’s conclusions. These include -
- Report on Nutrition
and Health by the U.S. Surgeon
General
- Diet and Health by the National Academy of Sciences
- Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention Objectives
by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines
for Americans 1995 by the
Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human
Services
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On July 23, 2002, the American Heart Association
(ADA) published a 5-page "Scientific Statement" on
"Sugar and Cardiovascular Disease". "The claim that nutritive sweeteners have caused an
increase in chronic disease (e.g., obesity,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dental carries,
behavioral disorders) is not substantiated…. persons can
include sugars in their diets and still consume a
healthful diet."
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Two of the major independent risk factors for
cardiovascular disease are high blood pressure and high
blood cholesterol. Keep your weight down. Obesity is a
risk factor for heart attacks and high blood pressure.
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When people have problems and
symptoms in their chest area, they look at the heart.
The real area is overlooked! Heart is not a cause of the
problem; heart is just a consequence of the problem.
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If you have a problem in your
chest area, first look at your GI tract. Let us
understand this in depth--
The food we eat gets absorbed in the small intestine and
majority of the liquid gets assimilated in the large
intestine. All the venous blood (dirty blood) returning
from the small intestine, stomach, pancreas and spleen
converges into the portal vein, which then goes into the
liver.
Liver is the main organ in a
human body whose primary task is to process substances
that are ‘alien’ to our body and to make them
‘friendly’. After blood has been processed inside liver,
it goes into the heart, and heart pumps it to the rest
of the body. Thirty per cent of the blood pumped through
the heart in one minute passes through the body's
chemical factory, the liver. The liver cleanses the
blood and processes nutritional molecules, which are
distributed to the tissues. The liver also receives
bright red blood from the lungs, filled with vital
oxygen to be delivered to the heart.
When we eat, more blood is
diverted to the intestines to deal with digestive
processes; when not eating, three-fourths of the blood
supply to the liver comes from the intestines. The liver
also synthesizes triglycerides and cholesterol, and
breaks down fatty acids.
It is therefore, most crucial to
give the GI tract a proper diet so that the heart is not
affected!
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Current research
indicates that proper food choices can reduce related
risk factors of cardiovascular disease - high blood
cholesterol, obesity and high blood pressure. Diet directly affects the
development of atherosclerosis (lesions which can block
arteries), the underlying cause for CVD.
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The 1989 National
Research Council (NRC) "Diet and Health Report" makes a
clear connection between diet and risk of disease.
Diet also affects blood cholesterol levels, body weight,
blood pressure, and blood glucose levels. Changing
lifestyle habits, including the way people eat, has long
been acknowledged to be effective in managing these risk
factors.
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