Here’s the challenge: The human body was simply not designed to handle refined sugars. They are not whole food. They bring about a deadly combination of malnutrition and toxicity. Refined sugar is new to the human diet and people are eating an enormous amount of it — almost half a pound per day! Feeding refined sugar to a human body is similar to burning high-octane aircraft fuel in an automobile engine. Impressive amounts of energy, but after a while, you damage the engine.
Sugar was locked away in apothecary shops as a dangerous drug in the Middle Ages. It is a substance that breaks down the cells in the body, interferes with the chemistry of digestion, dulls the brain, clogs the system and hinders the working of the body. In my book, The Immune System Handbook, page 87, I talk about sugar as the single most underrated cause of immune impairment.
