Epidemic of Foods Cooked with White Ingrediants: Pleasure=Sugar Story

Pleasantly Plump or Healthy

White Powders and other sugars Cooked in our Food.

By Katherine Reyna

February 2016

 A million books have been published to with cruel kindness on the wake of sugar.  National Geographic for instance describes a fine history of its origin in the middle east where Arabs began a relationship with the white substance.  Can I break the point that sugar and cocaine are two of a kind in their richness to bring pleasure and healing.  Why then is one legal and the other dose illegal?  Both have discovered great amounts of luxury and posh to the Western Society.

After reaching into the hands on understanding of sugar intake, I have seen cocaine intake in the same regard just not in a pretty pastry.  My father said it is similar to the choice of jumping from a high rise tower roof top and drowning.  One death is a slow and painful death, while the other death is fast and painless.  This comparison with cocaine and sugar brings another point across of the levels of doses taken makes a difference in the matter of bodily harm to one self and others.

Thirdly, one is legal and the other is illegal for obvious reasons of sugar bringing memory lapses, mood swings, weight issues, mental fuzziness, and other real symptoms with the irony of balancing your blood sugar naturally to avoid disease, lose weight, gain energy, and feel great.  In Sari Harrar's The Sugar Solution, weekly food plans, exercise steps, and stress data has reached to many books format of a whole lifestyle change.

Access sugar is found in all foods for flavor, and added sugars are a common habitual pleasure for everyone: cereal, oatmeal, or fruit are a few foods with added sugar.  Fruit alone has sugar, and so do all foods.  Carbohydrates break down into sugar, and in The Complete Idiots Guide to Type 2 Diabetes simple strategies, expert advice, and thorough examinations by Mayer B. Davidson, M.D., and Debra L/ Gordon explain that following the diet plan on page 82 will keep control over blood sugar levels.

Portion sizes, and carbohydrates for diabetes diets described in Dr. Buynak's 1-2-3 Diabetes Diet book with Gregory L. Guthrie brush on the making of realistic goals that way they will be attainable such as exercise with variety and any time you can make it happen.  Watching and hearing about sugar on the radio and in conversation I feel may show less than meets the eye and ear.  We can all put a piece of candy in our mouth with no account at all and eat what we assume is better for us than something else easily and very often.

Sometimes we see the light through a new article or a doctors book.  As we stick to our regular pleasures of eating we see the only changes we make in health and wellness consideration is off the latest fashion fitness lust of hot bikini model of the month or sexiest male body builders secrets.  In reality we are bummed out by our lack of lacking anything with everything at our hands from vitamins, to gym equiptment.  What puts our fingers on that last cookie, or the first potato chip?  What keeps us looking at the wrong thing to avoid or distract the real ailment? 

For years reading nutrition labels have shown me portion control and consistency in daily food moderation to the extent that when I do go over the norm of my calorie numbers, carbohydrate numbers, I become more tired, and fatigued.  I believe sugar will do that to you.  STill every day the agreements are about the exhausted measures of daily, weekly, or yearly even momth to month weight gain yet no loss yet.

Children are mostly at home these days with a full home entertainment system and the idea that its safer indoors than going outside to play.  From injuries to kidnappings, bullies don't come around anymore.  Or do they?  Lets stay on subject.  "We see that the growing rate through surveys of pleasantly plump to obese children begin their career of video games and computer sitting for 61/2 hours a day minimum while the diabetes epdiemic estimates 11 million Americans with type 2.  Another 5.9 million may have it but not know it."  Ch13 of The Sugar Solution, 2004, Harrar, Sari. 

So whose the real bully?  Maybe the way you raise your children or the childs personal choices made early on to lead to over wieght tragedies.  In Harrar's book the Sugar Solution she spends time in covering these major areas through 3-4 Chapters and you know why?  Because the problem with eating, excerising, and dealing with the peer pressures of stressful choices to be the cool parent can start at conception.  During pregnancies mothers are forewarned to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day with physical activity to build muscle that will manage blood sugar.

In the 1980's growing up my sister and I had a balance of going to play outside, and indoor activities.  Stopping for lunch and big breakfasts were a big deal in our upbringing all the way to our twenties.  Then during adulthood the long 8 hour desk jobs to fast food service jobs sent us into a downward spiral of long sedintary days and high sodium foods.  The masses of bus riders, and large before and after work traffic jams not to mention may have kept us pleasntly plump also. 

My sister turned over a new leaf and started a career in physical fitness as we struggled putting on a smile after our grandmother died from kidney failure a symptom of diabties while our own mother was on her way with the same fate.  As we spiraled with highs and lows of what to eat and how much to exercise the battle seemed uncontraollable.  I begin opening books and helath magazines, journaling my physical activity, food choices, and late night alcohol intake in my twenties.  While I turned thirty and decided to abstain from all alcohol choices, my sisters fitness career was growing exponentially with her own business and her personal life choices of healthy cooking, and yogging along Lake Michigan.

Large butter popcorns and fried foods continued plumpet my weightloss and gym workouts, and my clothes begain to rip and tear around my arms and legs.  Growing up vegetables were not shunned and in fact were incorporated well into all meals all the time.  it was excessive eating from stress or nervousness that brought on the comfort foods at all times.  My parents built a kingdom for us t enojy all cultures of foods, and try everything at least once which became an exciting adventure for us living in Chicago were the best food is served and cooked. I remember seeing my parents eat lots of fruits from watermelon to cantelopes whatever was in season and my mother even more so after her onset diabeties; blueberries, raspberries, bananas, and a glass of red wine.

Spending more time in my late twenites rushing to lose wieght put weight on while i ate many many sweets, working in fast food, and loving the fried vegetables.  Learning more and more how to stay on balance with my food choices without faltering isn't easy with the hardwired brain of pleasure and sugary food including many high carb pizzas, and all-American foods such as hot gods and hamburgers.  Which brings me back to the theories of white substances used in our meals such as flour, sugar, and at one time cocaine in the 70's.

It comes and it goes without a warning.  The cramps in my inner feet, and my chest fills with stomach acid so I sleep sitting up if u call that sleeping and roaring memories flood my mind while long walks break the silence. I just want to burp.  It's that to much to ask?  I just want to skim the fat right off as we.do everything else.

So to burn this off this fat belly, I'll eat small meals all day 6-7 maybe instead of 3 large ones.  Then stop eating 3 hours before bed. Anything to get rid of these prolonged suffering and pain.  Excerise has truly made me smile, putting a vibrant youth in my life back.

I can't tell you too just how spectacular it's been since I quit cigarette smoking and alcohol. The changes have been out of this world and  I don't look back much anymore since the conception of my newborn.

I feel up there with all those who truly want to become body builders today more than ever!  I looked up the other day over the numbers for a shakes sugar, calories, and carbohydrates along with the new coffee concoctions which are to say astronomical and so I thank God for unanswered prayers of a sweet drink half off all because of the sale and the spurn of the moment pleasure reception my body gets from my sugary choices.

The anger cloud uplifted from over my head, and so did the insecurity, and bad choice making within the rest of the day.  I was full of peace and clear of my rude moods of strange behaviors such as suckling in my gut and staring at myself in agony in the mirror.  Last night I could focus and see faster and more effective changes in my workouts results such as consistency since I wasn't zonked out after a pizza and ice cream shake. And I felt longer bouts of satisfaction everytime I passed on extra breads, and sugars.

So seeing that a kid shake has over 100 grams sugar how is this allowed by law officials? It would do a great service to mothers and small children to examine to dangers of sugar out there in our fast foods, and in our homes junk food drawers disrupting study time, emotional development, and physical development for our youth and young adults going into college and their workforce performance, health, saftey and happiness.

I'm in my late 30s now, and barely making it on my own with fitness magazines, and a set of dumbbells with gym membership contracts, peer pressures, grocery store sweets, and a hunger that is always looking for more carbs, more sugars, and calories to fill a never ending appetite.

I was never one to endure the right mind set, and friendships to a healthier life and always assumed I was healthy naturally and believed I was the one who could afford to sneak two more pieces of chocolate on a daily basis while vegetables made me feel starved.

The struggle is making longer weeks with stabilized food and fitness choices. Secondly, to get more sleep is a crucial part of body building, and last but not least meditate with others to rid the toxins out of my body in this journey to keep going to the top and letting go of the blood  sugar spikes and drops.