By Dean L. Jones, CPM
A positive sign that bad eating habits are slowing as people who considered themselves hooked on cupcakes and related sweets have undoubtedly realized that too much processed sugar hurts. The well-known cupcake retailer called Crumbs had an eleven year run of offering giant 600-calorie cupcakes in a variety of flavors such as red velvet, fluffernutter and s’mores that eventually sold for as much as $5 each. Well, Crumbs Bake Shop bit the dust and closed down all of its bakeries from Los Angeles to New York.
The closing of Crumbs is an indicator that consumers are making a mindful decision to reduce their consumption of processed sugary-filled items, like gratuitously rich desserts. The basic manner in which our bodies function require that what we ingest have a biochemical nutritional homeostasis, or balance. Eating processed sugar comes with consuming high carbohydrate foodstuff that have been processed, refined, synthesized, artificially flavored, and loaded with chemical preservatives, which in fact get us out of a natural balance.
Take for example the scientific evidence showing how cancer, heart disease, and sickle cell anemia are deficiency diseases aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound, particularly found in the general diet entertained by a significant number of blacks. The result of these studies indicate a definite link between eating and illness, where the solution to these diseases is best found in the field of nutrition rather than drugs, blood thinners, and blood transfusions. Therefore, the better we control ourselves from poor eating habits, the easier it is to maintain a healthy standard of living each day.
Sickle cell anemia is relatively rare in the Caribbean, which is primarily attributed to how the eating habits in this region make minimal use of processed sugars in their diets. Fortunately, the eating habits are changing in favor of eliminating processed sugar and increasing nutrient fresh foods that helps with inhibiting cells from sickling in the blood, resulting in painful hemolytic crisis caused by the clumping of the red blood cells. Our cells, organs, tissues, and chemicals are formed in the body by energy, a vibratory frequency which reflects the thoughts, foods, and medicines we ingest and contributes to the structure of our vital force.
Foodstuff makers advertise that vitamins and minerals are put back into their products before sending it to the market, thus, “enriched” is the word seen on bread, milk, and the like. But make no mistake about it; nothing is left but raw starch which has zero nutritive value. These starch synthetic chemicals (saccharification; gucose syrup, dextrose, fructose, dextrin and maltose) are injected, which form only part of the missing vitamins, and are not properly ingestible by human beings because they are not in balance.
Crumbs crumbled, but there are thousands of sugar predators working to hook consumers. So at all times stay SugarAlert!
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Dean Jones, Ethics Advocate, Southland Partnership Corporation (a public benefit organization), contributes his view on health attributes derived from processed foodstuff items.
