White Flour Contains Diabetes-Causing Contaminant Alloxan
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White Flour Contains Diabetes-Causing Contaminant Alloxan
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By: Mike Adams
White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan You may
want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on white bread.
Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour
look "clean" and "beautiful," destroys the beta cells of the
pancreas. That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and
putting yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the sake of
eating "beautiful" flour. Is it worth it?
Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years;
in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the
chemical to induce the disorder in lab animals. In the research
sense, giving alloxan to an animal is similar to injecting that
animal with a deadly virus, as both alloxan and the virus are being
used specifically to cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest
foods made with alloxan-contaminatefoods made with alloxan-contam
willingly consume foods tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had
a death wish, they probably would not. Unfortunately, most consumers
are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes
because these facts are not well publicized by the food industry.
How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari Sharma's
Freedom from Disease, the uric acid derivative initiates free
radical damage to DNA in the beta cells of the pancreas, causing the
cells to malfunction and die. When these beta cells fail to operate
normally, they no longer produce enough insulin, or in other words,
they cause one variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes. Alloxan's
harmful effects on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of
Natural Medicine calls the chemical "a potent beta-cell toxin."
However, even though the toxic effect of alloxan is common
scientific knowledge in the research community, the FDA still allows
companies to use it when processing foods we ingest.
The FDA and the white flour industry could counter-argue that, if
alloxan were to cause diabetes, a higher proportion of Americans
would be diabetic. After all, more consumers consume white flour on
a regular basis than are actually diabetic. This point is valid, but
it does not disprove the alloxan-diabetes connection. While alloxan
is one cause of adult-onset type 2 diabetes, it is of course not the
only cause. As the Textbook of Natural Medicine states, "current
theory suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to injury
coupled with some defect in tissue regeneration capacity" may be a
key cause. For alloxan to cause injury to an individual's beta
cells, the individual must have the genetic susceptibility to
injury. This is similar to the connection between high-cholesterol
foods and heart disease. Eating high-cholesterol foods causes heart
disease, especially in people who have family histories of heart
disease. The link between alloxan and diabetes is as clear and solid
as the link between cholesterol and heart disease.
If you've been eating white bread for years and you have a family
history of diabetes, all hope is not lost for you. Studies show that
you can reverse the effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet
with vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null's Clinicians Handbook of
Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the
harmful effects of administered alloxan. Now, you're not a lab rat,
but you're a mammal and vitamin E is definitely worth adding to your
daily regimen of nutritional supplements, especially if you have a
history of eating foods made with white flour and are at high risk
for diabetes.
Even if you are already diabetic, some simple changes to your diet
can help treat your diabetes. First of all, stop eating foods made
with white flour. Even though you already have diabetes, vitamin E
supplements can still help you, as can many common foods. Garlic,
for example, does wonders for diabetes. As Dr. Benjamin Lau states
in his book Garlic for Health, "When fed garlic, the rabbits'
elevated blood sugar dropped almost as much as it did when they were
given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that
garlic may improve the insulin effect."
If you can't handle the taste of natural garlic, you can take it in
widely available supplements. Aloe vera is a traditional diabetic
remedy in the Arabian Peninsula, and its therapeutic characteristics
are now gaining worldwide acceptance in the treatment of diabetes.
According to both human and animal research studies, aloe vera
lowers blood glucose levels by an unknown mechanism. According to
the Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, this natural
hypoglycemic effect extended over a period of 24 hours. Adding
onions to your diet (along with the garlic) can also significantly
reduce your blood sugar level. Additionally, as Dr. Michael T.
Murray writes in The Healing Power of Herbs, studies show that
ginseng controls glucose in both diabetic humans and diabetic
laboratory animals.
It all comes down to asking if putting yourself at risk for diabetic
coma, blindness, limb amputation and death is worth eating white
bread. If you're willing to risk your quality of life and your life
itself, then go ahead and eat all the foods made with white flour
you want. However, if you want to stop poisoning yourself with
alloxan, a known toxic chemical, then make a few simple dietary
changes. Eat groceries (see related ebook on groceries) made with
whole-grain wheat flour, not processed white flour.
The experts speak on alloxan Animal experiments have shown that
animals which have their Beta cells destroyed by alloxan are able to
regenerate Beta cells after a few months when taking GS, a herb
grown in India. The Beta cell is the cell that produces insulin.
Diabetics needing insulin treatment (Type 1) have been able to
decrease their insulin after GS therapy.
A Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products That Work By James
Howenstine
MD, page 112 In the mid-1980s, however (when herbal remedies again
were popular), pata de vaca's continued use as a natural insulin
substitute was reiterated in two Brazilian studies. Both studies
reported in vivo hypoglycemic actions in various animal and human
models. Chilean research in 1999 reported the actions of pata de
vaca in diabetic rats. Their study determined that pata de vaca was
found to "elicit remarkable hypoglycemic effects," and brough
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