October 25, 2025 • 54 mins
The average American eats 75 pounds of sugar each year when we should consume only 25 to 30 pounds per year. In this episode, you'll discover:
—Why sugar itself is not a bad thing, but what we've done with it is.
—How the amount of fiber versus sugar in our diets has changed over the years.
—How sugar affects children differently than adults, as sugar actually changes a child's brain chemistry similar to how cocaine changes a brain. And how sugar addiction can lead to drug addiction.
—Why the problem is REFINED sugar that is more like a drug instead of the natural UNREFINED sugar that still contains all the nutrients.
—The results of Dr. Prather's tests on his kids and their friends in choosing between snacks made with refined versus unrefined sugar.
—Why you need a lot of fiber to properly process sugar. And why oatmeal cookies can be good for you if done correctly.
—How sugar changes I.Q., speed of learning, and the ability to concentrate.
—How sugar affects our immune system. And the links between sugar and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity.
—The healthy alternatives to sugar: Stevia (which Dr. Prather calls his favorite since it contains NEGATIVE calories), Xylitol (which helps prevent cavities and strengthens teeth), Honey (which if grown locally helps fight allergies), and Rapidura.
—How purified fruit juices can be a problem since they take out all the fiber (and why Dr. Prather is pro-pulp).
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—Why sugar itself is not a bad thing, but what we've done with it is.
—How the amount of fiber versus sugar in our diets has changed over the years.
—How sugar affects children differently than adults, as sugar actually changes a child's brain chemistry similar to how cocaine changes a brain. And how sugar addiction can lead to drug addiction.
—Why the problem is REFINED sugar that is more like a drug instead of the natural UNREFINED sugar that still contains all the nutrients.
—The results of Dr. Prather's tests on his kids and their friends in choosing between snacks made with refined versus unrefined sugar.
—Why you need a lot of fiber to properly process sugar. And why oatmeal cookies can be good for you if done correctly.
—How sugar changes I.Q., speed of learning, and the ability to concentrate.
—How sugar affects our immune system. And the links between sugar and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity.
—The healthy alternatives to sugar: Stevia (which Dr. Prather calls his favorite since it contains NEGATIVE calories), Xylitol (which helps prevent cavities and strengthens teeth), Honey (which if grown locally helps fight allergies), and Rapidura.
—How purified fruit juices can be a problem since they take out all the fiber (and why Dr. Prather is pro-pulp).
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hi, I'm Lisa Praither and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Today we're talking about sugar, sweet and sweet
or a toxic trick like that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I didn't think of it. I didn't think of it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So okay, I was giving you credit for it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So let's talk about sugar. Is sugar bad?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh? Very good? And you know when you talk about
something good or bad, it's sort of a relative question,
you know, when you're talking about sugar. And I've talked
to nutritionists and they've had debates and they said, what's
wrong with sugar? I mean, sugar is a basic part
of the energy producing things that nature has produced, you know,
(01:03):
So I mean it's in and of itself, it's not
actually an issue because sugar, simple sugars, complex sugars are
part of the what's burned to produce energy. So that's
just a natural part of our diet. However, we have
taken something that is natural good and made it a problem.
(01:25):
You know, when we start messing with nature, we start
to have issues and Sugar in and of itself isn't
a problem. But when you have empty calories, that's what
becomes an issue.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, So when you're talking about are you talking about
cane sugar?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I mean when you're talking about sugar, you know,
just defining it. You have cane sugar, you have beet sugar.
You can actually get it from quite a few different
types of places.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And sugar itself, you know, is in our foods, it's
in our fruits, it's on you know. That's what we
use to break things down and important to be able
to burn energy, but to actually burn the energy, I mean,
the important thing to understand is what is an empty calorie.
That's where we're really getting into because to process the
(02:13):
breakdown of the energy, you need vitamins, minerals, fatty acids,
all those types of things. And when you have a
purified sugar, you take all those things out. And when
you take all those things out, the body has to
take those vitamins, minerals and other different types of products
(02:34):
to actually process the energy. Let me see what would
it be like. It would be sort of running a
marathon without ever resting in between. It's just it pretty
soon it'll wear out the body and start to cause
some nutritional deficiencies. So the problem with sugar if you
have too much sugar in your diet without the proper
(02:55):
nutrients that go along with it, then you start to
create a deficit and nutritional deficiencies. And when those nutritional
deficiencies start to occur, you start to have a breakdown
in a lot of different types of systems of the body.
And that's actually where sugar is a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So how much sugar do we eat? You said, you know,
too much sugar toog what is too much sugar? But
how much sugar do we eat?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The average American eats about seventy five pounds of.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Sugar a year, the average American.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Average American now in the nineteen nineties, it used to
be about one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That's the size of a child.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And it's one of the things when I was taking
nutritional courses and talking to some of the nutritionists, one
of the things that's really really healthy for us is fiber.
You know, you want to keep thin, you want to
keep healthy, you know, And when you're talking about the
different types of things that are really necessary for our
health and well being, fiber is an important aspect and
(04:01):
you know, we didn't used to think about that, but
fiber really helps with our digestion, right. And in the
old days, you know, when they measured out how much
dietary fiber people used to get, people used to get
about one hundred pounds of fiber a year. That's a
larger child, you know, about one hundred pounds, yes, but
(04:22):
they would only get about twenty five pounds of sugar.
Now we get about twenty five pounds of fiber a year,
and we used to get about one hundred pounds of sugar,
but we've cut it down to about seventy five pounds
because we've cut back on our sugar intake in our drinks.
They've cut that back.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, that's good news, that's good news.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A matter of fact, our drinks, you know, the drinks
we get, we get about thirty five pounds of that
in our drinks, sugary drinks.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Pops pops, and juices.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They add it to juices and other different.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Types of thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Five pounds of that it actually is in our drinks.
So if we cut that out, then we actually really
reduce that and what we should be doing, what is
a normal amount of dietary sugar we should be taking
in is about twenty five to thirty pounds a year.
Is really a healthy amount. I mean, if we completely
eliminated all sugar in our diet, that's not good for
(05:17):
us either.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Why isn't it good for us?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, we need those sugars to actually burn the energy.
We can't get the energy, so that's where the energy
exchange takes place. So again we're talking about homeostasis, right,
you know, you can be kind of crazy about everything.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let's talk about how does sugar affect children different than adults.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Ah, that's a very I had a.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Brother, Oh my gosh, around Halloween, we'd have to ration
out his you know, because he was hyperactive what they
call ah now.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And it has a very interesting effect. And you know,
one of the things is that the sugar industry did
research and they said that, you know, there was a
lot of research in science, and doctors used to quote
that and said, oh, it's been proven that sugar doesn't
cause hyperactivity. Well, there's an interesting phenomenon because kids respond
(06:13):
completely opposite of adults on drugs and all sorts of
different things. So when an adult actually takes sugar, there's
a sedation, you kind of get mellow and lazy. And
they actually found that and they said, well, you know,
we did research on adults and found that sugar actually
(06:37):
has a sedative effect, but they didn't do research on children,
and children usually have the opposite effect. Children actually have
the hyperactivity. So you know that's absolutely true because it
will actually change the brain chemistry. And this is the
whole effect of sugar. Sugar has when we take in
(06:57):
too much sugar. There's a whole wide range of different
effects that actually occur. Matter of fact, sugar has the
same effect on the brain on changing as drugs do,
like cocaine.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So there are a whole series of different types of
reactions that occur in the immune system, in the hormone system,
in the chemical makeup of the brain. There's a whole
series of types of things that actually occur that purified
sugar has that is very, very harmful to the health
(07:33):
and well being of people.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, when you know people say I'm addicted to sugar,
I mean there can be an addiction to sugar.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh, absolutely absolutely that. There are dopamine types of receptors
that occur when you're taking in large amounts of sugar
in your body has become used to it. There is
an absolute addictive quality to that.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
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Speaker 3 (12:01):
You Sugar, you are my can.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And you got me want.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You're listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert
Brief there of Holistic Integration, the most complhensive wellness center
in the Midwest. We're talking today about sugar sweet treat
or toxic trick and doctor Praither. When we want to
break I just want to clarify for our listeners. You know,
what kind of sugar are we talking about here? You know,
(12:36):
we have natural raw sugar, we have refined sugar. Big difference.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I know. One of the things is that they're
you know, for those who know, there's glucose, sucrose, lectose.
I mean, there's a whole bunch of different types of shoes.
I Am not going to bore the whole audience with
all that. So let's get it down to a practical
type of a basis. Yes, because one of the things
that we do is we do add sugar to our products.
(13:03):
But what we do is we put in unrefined sugar.
And there's a big difference in there. Most of the
time when you're talking about natural foods. For the plant
to actually be able to grow it, it has to
have the things to be able to process it within
the planet itself. So the vitamins, minerals and all the
(13:24):
things that are necessary to process the sugar are naturally
within whatever we would eat. What we do is we
take that and then we break down all those natural
types of things in there and then just extract the sugar,
so you can get unrefined cane sugar and it has
(13:44):
all the vitamins minerals that you need to process that
sugar within it. What we do is we take all
those things out of it and then we refine it
so that it's a pure form and really it's more
along the lines of a drug at that point.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Why do we do that?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know, that's a very good question, because I did
experiments with our kids on using the unrefined sugar and
the refined sugar and seeing which one they actually liked,
you know, as I did cooking different things like that,
and it was even with like we had girl scouts
over and stuff like that, and I'd make it and
(14:21):
have two tourtent ones, asking which one they liked the best,
and about scientists, Yeah, I'm a mad scientist, And eight
percent of them actually liked more of the was sugar foods,
you know, the more healthy, and I actually do like
those better. So, you know, why do we do that? Well,
(14:41):
A very interesting part of that is financial because remember
we said that it's when we said that there's an
addictive quality to purified sugar. Well, one of the big
problems we have is that they're putting sugar into all
sorts of things because they usually find if you add
(15:02):
enough sugar in there, it increases yourselves by twenty percent.
So if you want to sell more candy and you
make it very natural and healthy, you take three pieces
of candy and you're satisfied and you go on with
your life. If you purify that sugar and make it
(15:23):
a drug, then you don't stop at three pieces because
now it's an addictive quality and you eat the whole bag.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Doesn't sound like it's purifying, you said purifying.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, I mean what they do is they refine it
to such a it becomes a drug. So if you
make the sugar into a drug, people become addicted and
they eat more. If it's no longer a drug and
it's a food, people eat until they're actually satisfied. So
(15:56):
there should be rules about that that, you know, you
should actually consider s more of a drug because it
does have all the effects of a drug and should
be regulated. I mean, you know, in other words, you
shouldn't put it down as a food in a food group. Yeah,
I mean that's really purified sugar is not really a food.
(16:17):
It's a drug. When you have raw sugar in its
natural form, it's a food and people can have control
over it. You know. I can't emphasize that enough. And
that's you know, if you're trying to make a profit
putting drugs into things, you know, if you can sit
there and like Coca Cola became the national cellar because
(16:38):
they put cocaine it, you know, I mean real cocaine, right,
and of course you sell more. So if you make
something addictive, you sell more of it and you make
more money.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
There's the Mountain dew.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah. Yeah, So you know, having that understanding and as
you buy things, buying accordingly, so keeping sugar in the
food group is where it should be. Otherwise, you know,
we're talking about really a drug.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I know, for me, I have to watch you know
at Halloween, well they say the number one in number
two candy bars. Everybody liked Receis and Snickers, you know.
So this year I didn't buy four big bags. I
bought just two so that it would be all gone
(17:28):
right by the end of the night. And then the
little bars, you know, so.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You didn't get quite as much. And one of the
things that I did is I want a year without
sugar absolutely in any form that wasn't within the food group,
so I, you know, didn't buy anything that was processed.
Everything was natural and had that whole process. And one
of the things that I had liked before was something
(17:53):
called a susi q. You ever had a susi q?
Those are those chalks of things with a did you
like when I was you know, And I wouldn't have
it very often, Yeah, but I would stop by, you know,
on a bad day after school and I wanted a
little drug high. Yeah, I would buy one of those
on the way back from school when I was a
kid and have one. And so I had gone a
(18:16):
year and it was the anniversary of the year that
I had done it, and I had accomplished it. So
that was one of my goals. I said, you know what,
I'm going to have a susique. I haven't had one
in years, how in your twenties? I was. Yeah, I
was twenty three, and so I'd gone the whole year
without any sugar whatsoever. And I decided to buy a susique.
(18:37):
And so I bought one, opened it up, and took
a bite of it, and it was the worst thing
I had ever tasted in my entire life. Even now.
You know, I really don't like you're yeah, sugar, purified sugar,
that's not something that tastes good to me. So going
a whole year changed my whole taste buds. And now
(18:57):
the really pure sugar just really tastes awful to me.
You know, I have to have it in a very
natural type of form to really enjoy it. So I
tasted that and you know, one I spit it out,
two I threw it away.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Was that your last Susie cue?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And that was my last Susie cue?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I know with our weight loss people you know that
are drinking a lot of pop before they start or
feel like they have a sugar addiction, you know, yeah
when they because our weight loss program, the first two
phases are restrictive, you know, no pop, no refined sugar,
(19:39):
you know, processed foods. They don't crave it, you know,
after those four to ten weeks, sure, you know they
can't believe it, you know after and it changes that
whole breaks that cycle.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's a drug withdrawal. Yeah, and we need to stop
thinking of sugar as a food and start thinking in
as a drug. And when you do buy sugar, because
sugar is something that you can use in your dietary makeup,
and it doesn't in its natural form, does not become
really a problem. And the other thing that you really
(20:15):
need to that all things that like beats a cane.
If you've ever chewed on a piece of rock cane,
well I have. It has a lot of a huge
amount of fiber. So one of the things that you
for sugar to be able to be handled right, you
need to take large amounts of fiber. That's like why
(20:35):
oatmeal cookies are so nice. You know, you get a
lot of fiber into there. You need to have a
lot of zinc to be able to process it. You
need a lot of B vitamins and those types of
things are in there. That's why molasses can be really
good for you because that's the part that they actually
days and figs have a tremendous amount of fiber in them.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I didn't need any of those till I met you
and got married. Those weren't So those weren't on my
race at all.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
If I have a sweet tooth, I'll take a fig,
eat a fig, or a date a kiwi, you know,
very sweet, and that's where my sweet tooth. And then
I have one or two of those, and you know,
I'm happy. And there are times that you need an
extra glucose amount or fructose amount in your system because
(21:25):
your brain completely feeds off of glucose, so you're not
quite thinking right, you're a little bit down. Some natural
sugar would be good. So eating a fig, a date
and oatmeal cookie that's done with natural sugars are actually
pretty good for you. So you know, those types of things,
You can have your sweets but not becoming addicted to
(21:49):
them if you do it correctly.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, and I know we use other sugars like Rapidura.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Sugar are one of my favorite ones. Yeah, it's a
very natural type of sugar. You're not going to have
the same reactions. As a matter of fact, you know,
we are involved in braincore and qegs and one of
the things that if you know what you're doing, you
can take an MRI and a reading of the brain,
you can actually tell what things people are addicted to.
(22:15):
And there's a very definite pattern of sugar addiction, just
like there is for cocaine, heroin, all those different types
of things, and it really should be classified in the
same it'd.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Be interesting to see what kind of diets, cocaine addicts
and different drug addicts. You know. That's why we were
keeping all those away from my brother, you know. And
you see those addiction patterns.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Right, And one of the first addictions that people have
before they actually get into drugs is usually sugar.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah. Now you said something about the fiber. What's that
ratio again? We need to be eaten more fiber than sugar.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You should have four times the amount of fiber that
you do sugar.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, And we've kind of turned that around.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We've turned that around, and we're really not up to
where we need to be. We really need a lot
of fiber into our diet.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So how does sugar affect our brain? We've talked a
little bit about the addictive qualities.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, it actually increases different types of receptors. Probably don't
get into the chemistry too much here, but in other words,
it has a effect on the IQ speed of learning,
ability to concentrate. So it has a very very direct
effect on a child's learning ability. And there have done
(23:32):
several studies where they've eliminated the sugar in the diet
and found a very definite increase on a child's ability
to learn. So if you want smart kids, keep them away.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
From sugar, learn and concentrate.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yes, well, I mean there's so many other different immune
system and other different types of factors that go into
that too.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, well, let's talk about more of that when we
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Speaker 4 (28:30):
I want a little sugar in my bow. I want
a little sweetness down in my show.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Ad Lisa Prather, and you're listening to the Voice of
Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration where we
get to the root cause of your health issue shame.
We're talking today about sugar sweet treat or trick and
that you pray. They're very interesting. The average American takes
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in seventy five pounds of sugar a year, yes, right,
and a very low level of fiber. And we're saying
we need to switch that around.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
We need to really switch that around, and we would
see a definite decrease in the obesity rate, diabetes, cardiovascular,
a lot of the immune autoimmune diseases would have a
huge effect on the health and well being and the
issues that we have. The drug addiction. If we could
keep our kids away from sugar, we would see far
fewer than petting towards drugs.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Also, when I just think when you go to the
grocery store, it's staying away from those aisles.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, that's going on the outside full of sugar.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes are ketchups and are right king and foods.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And it's hard for a company because the companies that
don't add sugar into their processed foods don't sell us much.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But that's going to change.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
We need to have better labeling, people need to make
better choices, better education, and then trying to let people know.
One of the things that the FDA is trying to
do is to require labeling that there's added sugar. In
other words, there's natural sugar in products, which you would expect,
but you know what is it that they're adding to it,
because it's the sugar that's naturally in the food. Because
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there's sugar and tomatoes, they're sugar and apples. You know
what I'm saying. Sugar, that's that's fine, But when they
add sugar in it, it's to sell more of it.
And that's what the FDA is trying to be able
to do, and the food industry is really pushing back
against them. We as consumer need to be actually on
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the side of the FDA and say added sugar. I
want to know how much added sugar is in this food?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Right, that's a big, big thing right now.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Right, Yeah, you know, an educated public, you know, there
needs to be truth in advertising. You know, that's why
we have those labels on there, so that people can
pick up a product and say, hey, what is it
that I'm putting in my mouth and then choose. Yeah,
you know, if you want to have all the issues
that are involved in the added sugar, then that's your choice.
(31:11):
If you, as a consumer know better and you say, hey,
you know they're trying to sell me more, get me
addicted to this stuff, I'm going to choose something better
so I don't have that, you know, So the people
who are good are going to get more cells out
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
You know what I'm so proud of is when I'm
in the grocery line and the clerk says, I think
it was last night. This is beautiful this food because
color and you know, as natural as possible, and it's
good to kind of look at, you know, what we're
putting in our grocery cart.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Right, You know, I don't know, it's just you know,
have a little little sign as you know, junk food addict.
You know, as you go through, right, little signs up there,
you know this is this is a healthy.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Guy kind of rate.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Rate everybody as we go through. You know, there's a
little sign up above. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I just went to that market district you know which
they got live music going and it's an event. It's
like a field trip. I got lost in there. But
I like it because the aisles they're not in your way.
You're not you don't even have to go in the
aisles if you don't want. You know what I'm saying.
(32:35):
You know, it's great. So we talked about a little bit.
Anymore you want to talk about how sugar affects our
brain or go on too the immune system.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I think people got the idea on the brain. You know,
it's like the egg that smashed on the ground. You know,
this is your brain on sugar.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Have you seen that somewhere?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Do you just make well they were talking about your
brain on drugs, you know, but yeah, it shows my age.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So how does sugar affect our immune system?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Oh? That's the other thing is that it's just there
are so many people who come in after Halloween and
and the holidays, holidays just because they've had way too
much sugar and they get.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Sick because it decreases their immune system. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I mean we've even done little fun types of back
in our days we had availability of microscopes and you know,
taken a little yeah, you know, I know, and we
take a bunch of sugar and then we check the
how the white blood cells react, and then we let
everything get back to normal and how much better. But
it slows down your immune system. White blood cells will
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not chase down a bacteria or a virus nearly as
well or as efficiently. If you have a whole bunch
of sugar.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Is it get sluggish?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
They get very sluggish, you know. I've seen it on
the bud Slides Life cell blood slides when we were
watching that. And then there is a very definite drop
in the immune system function when you take in too
much sugar.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I know, if I'm starting to feel not like myself
or like my immune system has been compromised at all,
I just cut it all out.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Actually, we make chicken soup, Yes, chicken soup for the soul. Yes,
lots of garlic and.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
All those good types of things. I put a whole
bunch of herbs in there. Herbs are amazing for the
immune system. You know, you get all the fat particles
in there, add some whole grain bread in there, you know,
and you can really you know, you get the all
the nutrients in there, and you can you can actually
feel the difference.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Oh yeah, yeah. We kind of grew up with that
with my dad, you know, doing that, and we've been
doing making a big pot on the weekends and sure,
yeah last just a couple of days. It's nice. But
we're not talking about chicken soup. We're talking about sugar. Okay,
chicken soup for the soul, yeah before that's right. So
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talk about sugar and cardiovascular disease.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Very strong link between that our ceosclerosis. The sugar definitely
causes an increase in free radical pathology, which damages the
vascular system. Yea, damages the heart. The heart is probably
one of the most sensitive organs in our body, just
because it's constantly beating. We even sometimes rest our mind,
but we don't really ever rest our heart. You know.
(35:24):
It's like, okay, heart, you know you've had a really
rough day. Why don't you take five.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Minutes off not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Not a good idea. So, cardiovascular disease, there's a very
strong link between cardiovascular disease and the amount of sugar
that you take in. So one of the things is
if someone has had cardiovascular one of the things we
definitely tell them is that they have to eliminate sugar
out of their diet, all the non natural you know,
so very strong link on that, very well proven prevent
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cardiovascular disease. Cut out the sugar.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
How about sugar's link to diet Betes.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Well, that's pretty obvious. Yes, everybody can tell a big
difference along those lines. Having a diet low in sugar
is a very important type of aspect. Watching the glycemic index,
how much sugar actually goes through the system, increasing the fiber,
all the nutrients. Really we can see type two diabetes
(36:20):
is always curable, right, Let me repeat that Type two
diabetes is always.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Curable if the person chooses to.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
If the person chooses.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
To, I mean, we all have a decision, and we
see that, we see people that are taking responsibility for
their health, practice proactive healthy lifestyle, you know, practice proactive.
It just can't happen and you can't blame anybody else.
We can't go around blaming these companies that are adding sugar.
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We decide whether we're going to buy it or not.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Right, right, right, We can make intelligent choices and you know,
we can exercise, we can do the lifestyle types of changes.
Or it's a lazy attitude is really where that sugar
comes in. You know, I just want things done for
me and let other people make my decisions for me,
getting down and saying, hey, I am in charge of
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my life. I'm not going to let Wall Street or
whoever make my decisions for me and take care of me,
because they're not going to. No, they're not, you know,
the responsibility of the people. And we're seeing that, we
see a change in the health consciousness in the way
that shoppers and Wall Street will respond to that. They
want to make money and if people are making the
right choices, then they're going to say, hey, we have
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to make the right choices.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Too, because the public is But we got to start.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
The change starts with the public. That's why we're doing
this radio programs to educate people. Right right, most of
the people were never going to see in here, you know,
so it's not about us. It's about the public and
we're trying to do what's right for them.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Let's talk about the big one. No pun intended, But
how does sugar contribute to obesity?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Oh? There's no link whatsoever. And what is funny is
that there was I saw a panel of six ducks
who were saying that there is no link between the
amount of sugar people take in obesity. And what's interesting
is we found out is all of them were paid
by the sugar industry.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Interesting people will do when.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
They yeah, and of course all of them were fat,
they were all obese, and they're going, no, there's no Yeah,
there's no link between that. There's no scientific broot.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's like you've got to be kidding, you know, and
steno to believe it, that's the issue.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, you know, they have found that if you repeat
something long enough that there's a certain percentage of people
who are actually going to believe it. So you know,
we need to have.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I think we're getting smarter.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I think we're getting smarter.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Okay, we're getting tired of it and getting smarter. Okay,
when we come back, let's talk about alternatives to sugar
and honey. Stevia we'll be talking about that when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Sounds great.
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listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert Praither
of Holistic Integration for our mission is restoring hope to
our patients. Talking today about sugar Sweet treat or a
toxic trick and doctor Prayther a very interesting show. You're
talking about the average American. This is the average American
eats seventy five pounds of sugar and a lot less fiber.
(44:38):
And we need to turn that around where we're eating
more fiber. You said four times.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Yeah, we need to be basically only eating about twenty
five pounds of sugar a year and about one hundred
pounds of fiber.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
I mean that's hard to monitor. We have to measure
it every.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Time we do. Now you know you can add fiber.
You know, be thinking about different things. Let's say you're
gonna make cookies. You know you should putting in a
lot of fiber, and that would be whole grains, oats,
whole wheat things. Always looking to add the fiber into
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whatever we eat.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Do you notice when I talk about cooking, I'm always
say you get the soup, our listeners, our patients know.
I don't enjoy cooking. I do the cleanup.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Yeah, and I actually love cooking.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
So you know that it relaxes you.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, and it tendss you up. Oh yeah, so you
know we have a it works well progressive marriage.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
So let's talk about you know, sugars. What are the
alternative sugars?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Well, you know, instead of buying the sugars that they
there's a whole bunch of different types of things out there.
And first off, most of the artificial sweeteners are really
bad for you and can actually be more addictive than
you know, even the sugar itself, and have even greater.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Are you talking about the substitute?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
You know, the substitute in the diet drinks? Right? You
know which ones are actually the ones that are good
for you? And probably my favorite is stevia. Stevia, you
know it is actually a natural sweetener. It has negative calories.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
It's negative calories.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
It actually as you process the stevia. It takes more
calories than actually you get from it.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Wow, So it has a negative everybody's going out.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
And Cevia has been around for an awful long time
and used, and it took a while for the FDA
to approve it just because of the artificial sweetening group
didn't want it in there because it was so much
better than the artificial sweeteners. But now there are pops
with stevia, There are sweeteners with stevia. You know, if
(46:47):
you use stevia as part of your cooking, if you
buy pops with stevia, there's an awful lot of benefits
with stevia with really no notice.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I just tried when I got it fresh time with stevia,
I was great.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, you know. Yeah. In Japan, that's the non sugar
sweetener that they've used for years. South America, almost all
the pops have stevia in it. So all the diet
pops basically in South America and Japan for a long
time have been using stevia and it just doesn't have
the negative side effects that you find in other so
it's a great one for diabetics. It actually kills yeast,
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so it has some medicinal values to it. So it's
a great one to really get that sweet flavor without
all the problems. And it's basically from a leaf that's
found in South America. Matter of fact, I know some
people to get the sweetener, they actually grow the stevia
plant and then break off a leaf and then put
it into different types of things to get the sweetener.
(47:46):
And you don't actually have a little bit of that
pungent taste that sometimes you get with the granulated stevia.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
So it's a very nice alternative. One of my favorites.
Another one that I actually like is xylotov that's gum, Yeah,
xylotol gum. What's nice about xylotal is it actually will
help with cavities. So if you're giving your kids some
other gums, xylotol really is the best one to have
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in there, or stevia, because xylotol actually has a strengthening.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
Effect on the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, that's the kind because most of the other different
types of artificial sweeteners I have reactions. I can tell
I don't do well. You've seen that before, so you know,
there's an awful lot of problems. So you know, staying
away from most of the artificial sweeteners. Really, if you're
going to go with a sweetener, the best one to
go with is Stevia. Xylotl is also something that I
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liked too.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
How about honey?
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Honey? That's a really good question, you know, is to honey.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
It was something I didn't grow up with.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Yeah, it is honey and okay, sugar and honey. There
is a different response on that. Now. One of the
things is if you have the really really raw honey,
you know, has all that wax and stuff in it,
you know, and that actually produces a lot of fiber
the wax in it. Yeah, you know, so there is
a benefit along those lines. The more raw the honey,
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the better it is as you purify it, you know,
even as you go through some of the process, it
becomes a stronger type of thing. But there is a
better effect with honey than there is and the more
it's correct, more local you can actually because some of
the pollen in there, it helps to cut down on
some of the allergies that are associated with that.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, I know. Actually we are seeing some what are
those bee houses be beehives, bee hives in the next
neighborhood over from us to pass his house. We're hoping
the beekeeper is out, so he is selling the honey
that's local, yes, yes, so you know better of a
mile away.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Having the honey, actually having the wax with it is
the best way to really eat it because it gives
you a lot of fiber on a whole grain piece
of bread with some natural butter on top. And I'm
getting hungry right now, and that that's actually good for it.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
You had your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
And well I did, yes, yes, but you know, you
start thinking about those things. Now.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Let's talk about fruit juices. It's a big thing, especially
with kids.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Yes, for fruit juices, there is a real problem, especially
with people with high trechless rides. If you have the
purified fruit juices. You know, when you get fruit and
it's raw form, you have a lot of fiber in there.
They take all the fiber out. They also pasteurize it.
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That's why it's better to have, you know, if you're
having orange juice, have the pulp in there because that
provides the fiber that goes along old. No, kids, kids
are so I actually you know I am.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
From you.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, you know, when we were getting orange juice, I
wanted the ones with the pulp because it made me
feel good. I didn't know why now I do. And
my sisters always look at me like, you know, and
my mom would go, oh, see this is what and
they would kick me underneath the table because I wanted
the good stuff. So, if you are drinking a lot
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of fruit juice, you know, and you want to have that.
In other words, the fresh squeeze with the pulp in
there is your best because as you longer it sits,
the more it's pasteurized, the less vitamins and metals you're
gonna get, the less fiber. So fruit is really really
good for you. But really in its four all form
is the best way to have it. And if you're
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going to do orange juice, get one of those little
you know, put the oranges in and so yeah, I know,
I know, but then get the pulp. So if you're
buying fruit juice and then you have a choice between
pulp and non pulp, get the pulp. It's better for you.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Yeah, you're just gonna watch taste some of them on
pasteurized juices, you know.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Well it's free. You know the reason that they pasteurize it,
do all those types of things is because fresh gets
broken down pretty quickly, so the longer it is from
the time you squeeze it until you get it, then
it doesn't taste as good because that's natural, that's the
way it should be working. That's why they do a
lot of processing, do a lot of things to food,
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because fresh is always better than if it's been sitting
on the shelf for a long time.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Well, what about artificial sweeteners?
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Oh, I really really don't like artificial sweeteners. There's a
tremendous amount of problems with them. You know, there's a
lot of cancer links, there's an awful lot of brain issues,
you know. So if you can avoid except for exylotol
as an artificial sweetener, I like that one, but most
of the others I really don't.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
We saw a comedian this week that was talking about
going through drive through. It's really not funny, but he
was quite a large total yeah, and embarrassed of his order,
you know, the only one in the car. So he
was acting like there were two people, you know.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
Or he was picking up something for someone yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Or what would she want?
Speaker 2 (53:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
So he gets all this food and then he says,
diet PEPSI please, you know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
After your five big max. Then you want to diet
pepsi with it, yes.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
And how that evens it out, I don't know. Well,
dot your prayther we have little less than a minute.
Anything you want to conclude with on the show of.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Sugar, Yes, people like their sweets. There are ways to
do it naturally. So one of the things that I
would do is I always when I make cookies is
I use whole grains. I had oatmeal to it, and
I also put some Stevie in there, which have kind
of like this recipe along those lines. Then I use
some rapid or sugar and I use that combination so
(53:59):
I get a little as possible as few as calories
to the highest amount of nutrients going for the denser nutrients.
The less calories is how you're going to really help you.
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Hi, I'm Lisa Praither and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Today we're talking about sugar, sweet and sweet
or a toxic trick like that.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I didn't think of it. I didn't think of it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So okay, I was giving you credit for it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So let's talk about sugar. Is sugar bad?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh? Very good? And you know when you talk about
something good or bad, it's sort of a relative question,
you know, when you're talking about sugar. And I've talked
to nutritionists and they've had debates and they said, what's
wrong with sugar? I mean, sugar is a basic part
of the energy producing things that nature has produced, you know,
(01:03):
So I mean it's in and of itself, it's not
actually an issue because sugar, simple sugars, complex sugars are
part of the what's burned to produce energy. So that's
just a natural part of our diet. However, we have
taken something that is natural good and made it a problem.
(01:25):
You know, when we start messing with nature, we start
to have issues and Sugar in and of itself isn't
a problem. But when you have empty calories, that's what
becomes an issue.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, So when you're talking about are you talking about
cane sugar?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, I mean when you're talking about sugar, you know,
just defining it. You have cane sugar, you have beet sugar.
You can actually get it from quite a few different
types of places.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And sugar itself, you know, is in our foods, it's
in our fruits, it's on you know. That's what we
use to break things down and important to be able
to burn energy, but to actually burn the energy, I mean,
the important thing to understand is what is an empty calorie.
That's where we're really getting into because to process the
(02:13):
breakdown of the energy, you need vitamins, minerals, fatty acids,
all those types of things. And when you have a
purified sugar, you take all those things out. And when
you take all those things out, the body has to
take those vitamins, minerals and other different types of products
(02:34):
to actually process the energy. Let me see what would
it be like. It would be sort of running a
marathon without ever resting in between. It's just it pretty
soon it'll wear out the body and start to cause
some nutritional deficiencies. So the problem with sugar if you
have too much sugar in your diet without the proper
(02:55):
nutrients that go along with it, then you start to
create a deficit and nutritional deficiencies. And when those nutritional
deficiencies start to occur, you start to have a breakdown
in a lot of different types of systems of the body.
And that's actually where sugar is a problem.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So how much sugar do we eat? You said, you know,
too much sugar toog what is too much sugar? But
how much sugar do we eat?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The average American eats about seventy five pounds of.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Sugar a year, the average American.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Average American now in the nineteen nineties, it used to
be about one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That's the size of a child.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And it's one of the things when I was taking
nutritional courses and talking to some of the nutritionists, one
of the things that's really really healthy for us is fiber.
You know, you want to keep thin, you want to
keep healthy, you know, And when you're talking about the
different types of things that are really necessary for our
health and well being, fiber is an important aspect and
(04:01):
you know, we didn't used to think about that, but
fiber really helps with our digestion, right. And in the
old days, you know, when they measured out how much
dietary fiber people used to get, people used to get
about one hundred pounds of fiber a year. That's a
larger child, you know, about one hundred pounds, yes, but
(04:22):
they would only get about twenty five pounds of sugar.
Now we get about twenty five pounds of fiber a year,
and we used to get about one hundred pounds of sugar,
but we've cut it down to about seventy five pounds
because we've cut back on our sugar intake in our drinks.
They've cut that back.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Well, that's good news, that's good news.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A matter of fact, our drinks, you know, the drinks
we get, we get about thirty five pounds of that
in our drinks, sugary drinks.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Pops pops, and juices.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They add it to juices and other different.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Types of thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Five pounds of that it actually is in our drinks.
So if we cut that out, then we actually really
reduce that and what we should be doing, what is
a normal amount of dietary sugar we should be taking
in is about twenty five to thirty pounds a year.
Is really a healthy amount. I mean, if we completely
eliminated all sugar in our diet, that's not good for
(05:17):
us either.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Why isn't it good for us?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, we need those sugars to actually burn the energy.
We can't get the energy, so that's where the energy
exchange takes place. So again we're talking about homeostasis, right,
you know, you can be kind of crazy about everything.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Let's talk about how does sugar affect children different than adults.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Ah, that's a very I had a.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Brother, Oh my gosh, around Halloween, we'd have to ration
out his you know, because he was hyperactive what they
call ah now.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And it has a very interesting effect. And you know,
one of the things is that the sugar industry did
research and they said that, you know, there was a
lot of research in science, and doctors used to quote
that and said, oh, it's been proven that sugar doesn't
cause hyperactivity. Well, there's an interesting phenomenon because kids respond
(06:13):
completely opposite of adults on drugs and all sorts of
different things. So when an adult actually takes sugar, there's
a sedation, you kind of get mellow and lazy. And
they actually found that and they said, well, you know,
we did research on adults and found that sugar actually
(06:37):
has a sedative effect, but they didn't do research on children,
and children usually have the opposite effect. Children actually have
the hyperactivity. So you know that's absolutely true because it
will actually change the brain chemistry. And this is the
whole effect of sugar. Sugar has when we take in
(06:57):
too much sugar. There's a whole wide range of different
effects that actually occur. Matter of fact, sugar has the
same effect on the brain on changing as drugs do,
like cocaine.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So there are a whole series of different types of
reactions that occur in the immune system, in the hormone system,
in the chemical makeup of the brain. There's a whole
series of types of things that actually occur that purified
sugar has that is very, very harmful to the health
(07:33):
and well being of people.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, when you know people say I'm addicted to sugar,
I mean there can be an addiction to sugar.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Oh, absolutely absolutely that. There are dopamine types of receptors
that occur when you're taking in large amounts of sugar
in your body has become used to it. There is
an absolute addictive quality to that.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
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Speaker 3 (12:01):
You Sugar, you are my can.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And you got me want.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You're listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert
Brief there of Holistic Integration, the most complhensive wellness center
in the Midwest. We're talking today about sugar sweet treat
or toxic trick and doctor Praither. When we want to
break I just want to clarify for our listeners. You know,
what kind of sugar are we talking about here? You know,
(12:36):
we have natural raw sugar, we have refined sugar. Big difference.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, I know. One of the things is that they're
you know, for those who know, there's glucose, sucrose, lectose.
I mean, there's a whole bunch of different types of shoes.
I Am not going to bore the whole audience with
all that. So let's get it down to a practical
type of a basis. Yes, because one of the things
that we do is we do add sugar to our products.
(13:03):
But what we do is we put in unrefined sugar.
And there's a big difference in there. Most of the
time when you're talking about natural foods. For the plant
to actually be able to grow it, it has to
have the things to be able to process it within
the planet itself. So the vitamins, minerals and all the
(13:24):
things that are necessary to process the sugar are naturally
within whatever we would eat. What we do is we
take that and then we break down all those natural
types of things in there and then just extract the sugar,
so you can get unrefined cane sugar and it has
(13:44):
all the vitamins minerals that you need to process that
sugar within it. What we do is we take all
those things out of it and then we refine it
so that it's a pure form and really it's more
along the lines of a drug at that point.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Why do we do that?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know, that's a very good question, because I did
experiments with our kids on using the unrefined sugar and
the refined sugar and seeing which one they actually liked,
you know, as I did cooking different things like that,
and it was even with like we had girl scouts
over and stuff like that, and I'd make it and
(14:21):
have two tourtent ones, asking which one they liked the best,
and about scientists, Yeah, I'm a mad scientist, And eight
percent of them actually liked more of the was sugar foods,
you know, the more healthy, and I actually do like
those better. So, you know, why do we do that? Well,
(14:41):
A very interesting part of that is financial because remember
we said that it's when we said that there's an
addictive quality to purified sugar. Well, one of the big
problems we have is that they're putting sugar into all
sorts of things because they usually find if you add
(15:02):
enough sugar in there, it increases yourselves by twenty percent.
So if you want to sell more candy and you
make it very natural and healthy, you take three pieces
of candy and you're satisfied and you go on with
your life. If you purify that sugar and make it
(15:23):
a drug, then you don't stop at three pieces because
now it's an addictive quality and you eat the whole bag.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Doesn't sound like it's purifying, you said purifying.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Well, I mean what they do is they refine it
to such a it becomes a drug. So if you
make the sugar into a drug, people become addicted and
they eat more. If it's no longer a drug and
it's a food, people eat until they're actually satisfied. So
(15:56):
there should be rules about that that, you know, you
should actually consider s more of a drug because it
does have all the effects of a drug and should
be regulated. I mean, you know, in other words, you
shouldn't put it down as a food in a food group. Yeah,
I mean that's really purified sugar is not really a food.
(16:17):
It's a drug. When you have raw sugar in its
natural form, it's a food and people can have control
over it. You know. I can't emphasize that enough. And
that's you know, if you're trying to make a profit
putting drugs into things, you know, if you can sit
there and like Coca Cola became the national cellar because
(16:38):
they put cocaine it, you know, I mean real cocaine, right,
and of course you sell more. So if you make
something addictive, you sell more of it and you make
more money.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
There's the Mountain dew.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah. Yeah, So you know, having that understanding and as
you buy things, buying accordingly, so keeping sugar in the
food group is where it should be. Otherwise, you know,
we're talking about really a drug.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I know, for me, I have to watch you know
at Halloween, well they say the number one in number
two candy bars. Everybody liked Receis and Snickers, you know.
So this year I didn't buy four big bags. I
bought just two so that it would be all gone
(17:28):
right by the end of the night. And then the
little bars, you know, so.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You didn't get quite as much. And one of the
things that I did is I want a year without
sugar absolutely in any form that wasn't within the food group,
so I, you know, didn't buy anything that was processed.
Everything was natural and had that whole process. And one
of the things that I had liked before was something
(17:53):
called a susi q. You ever had a susi q?
Those are those chalks of things with a did you
like when I was you know, And I wouldn't have
it very often, Yeah, but I would stop by, you know,
on a bad day after school and I wanted a
little drug high. Yeah, I would buy one of those
on the way back from school when I was a
kid and have one. And so I had gone a
(18:16):
year and it was the anniversary of the year that
I had done it, and I had accomplished it. So
that was one of my goals. I said, you know what,
I'm going to have a susique. I haven't had one
in years, how in your twenties? I was. Yeah, I
was twenty three, and so I'd gone the whole year
without any sugar whatsoever. And I decided to buy a susique.
(18:37):
And so I bought one, opened it up, and took
a bite of it, and it was the worst thing
I had ever tasted in my entire life. Even now.
You know, I really don't like you're yeah, sugar, purified sugar,
that's not something that tastes good to me. So going
a whole year changed my whole taste buds. And now
(18:57):
the really pure sugar just really tastes awful to me.
You know, I have to have it in a very
natural type of form to really enjoy it. So I
tasted that and you know, one I spit it out,
two I threw it away.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Was that your last Susie cue?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And that was my last Susie cue?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I know with our weight loss people you know that
are drinking a lot of pop before they start or
feel like they have a sugar addiction, you know, yeah
when they because our weight loss program, the first two
phases are restrictive, you know, no pop, no refined sugar,
(19:39):
you know, processed foods. They don't crave it, you know,
after those four to ten weeks, sure, you know they
can't believe it, you know after and it changes that
whole breaks that cycle.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's a drug withdrawal. Yeah, and we need to stop
thinking of sugar as a food and start thinking in
as a drug. And when you do buy sugar, because
sugar is something that you can use in your dietary makeup,
and it doesn't in its natural form, does not become
really a problem. And the other thing that you really
(20:15):
need to that all things that like beats a cane.
If you've ever chewed on a piece of rock cane,
well I have. It has a lot of a huge
amount of fiber. So one of the things that you
for sugar to be able to be handled right, you
need to take large amounts of fiber. That's like why
(20:35):
oatmeal cookies are so nice. You know, you get a
lot of fiber into there. You need to have a
lot of zinc to be able to process it. You
need a lot of B vitamins and those types of
things are in there. That's why molasses can be really
good for you because that's the part that they actually
days and figs have a tremendous amount of fiber in them.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I didn't need any of those till I met you
and got married. Those weren't So those weren't on my
race at all.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
If I have a sweet tooth, I'll take a fig,
eat a fig, or a date a kiwi, you know,
very sweet, and that's where my sweet tooth. And then
I have one or two of those, and you know,
I'm happy. And there are times that you need an
extra glucose amount or fructose amount in your system because
(21:25):
your brain completely feeds off of glucose, so you're not
quite thinking right, you're a little bit down. Some natural
sugar would be good. So eating a fig, a date
and oatmeal cookie that's done with natural sugars are actually
pretty good for you. So you know, those types of things,
You can have your sweets but not becoming addicted to
(21:49):
them if you do it correctly.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, and I know we use other sugars like Rapidura.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Sugar are one of my favorite ones. Yeah, it's a
very natural type of sugar. You're not going to have
the same reactions. As a matter of fact, you know,
we are involved in braincore and qegs and one of
the things that if you know what you're doing, you
can take an MRI and a reading of the brain,
you can actually tell what things people are addicted to.
(22:15):
And there's a very definite pattern of sugar addiction, just
like there is for cocaine, heroin, all those different types
of things, and it really should be classified in the
same it'd.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Be interesting to see what kind of diets, cocaine addicts
and different drug addicts. You know. That's why we were
keeping all those away from my brother, you know. And
you see those addiction patterns.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Right, And one of the first addictions that people have
before they actually get into drugs is usually sugar.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah. Now you said something about the fiber. What's that
ratio again? We need to be eaten more fiber than sugar.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You should have four times the amount of fiber that
you do sugar.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Okay, And we've kind of turned that around.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We've turned that around, and we're really not up to
where we need to be. We really need a lot
of fiber into our diet.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So how does sugar affect our brain? We've talked a
little bit about the addictive qualities.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, it actually increases different types of receptors. Probably don't
get into the chemistry too much here, but in other words,
it has a effect on the IQ speed of learning,
ability to concentrate. So it has a very very direct
effect on a child's learning ability. And there have done
(23:32):
several studies where they've eliminated the sugar in the diet
and found a very definite increase on a child's ability
to learn. So if you want smart kids, keep them away.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
From sugar, learn and concentrate.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yes, well, I mean there's so many other different immune
system and other different types of factors that go into
that too.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, well, let's talk about more of that when we
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Speaker 4 (28:30):
I want a little sugar in my bow. I want
a little sweetness down in my show.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Ad Lisa Prather, and you're listening to the Voice of
Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration where we
get to the root cause of your health issue shame.
We're talking today about sugar sweet treat or trick and
that you pray. They're very interesting. The average American takes
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in seventy five pounds of sugar a year, yes, right,
and a very low level of fiber. And we're saying
we need to switch that around.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
We need to really switch that around, and we would
see a definite decrease in the obesity rate, diabetes, cardiovascular,
a lot of the immune autoimmune diseases would have a
huge effect on the health and well being and the
issues that we have. The drug addiction. If we could
keep our kids away from sugar, we would see far
fewer than petting towards drugs.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Also, when I just think when you go to the
grocery store, it's staying away from those aisles.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, that's going on the outside full of sugar.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yes are ketchups and are right king and foods.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And it's hard for a company because the companies that
don't add sugar into their processed foods don't sell us much.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
But that's going to change.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
We need to have better labeling, people need to make
better choices, better education, and then trying to let people know.
One of the things that the FDA is trying to
do is to require labeling that there's added sugar. In
other words, there's natural sugar in products, which you would expect,
but you know what is it that they're adding to it,
because it's the sugar that's naturally in the food. Because
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there's sugar and tomatoes, they're sugar and apples. You know
what I'm saying. Sugar, that's that's fine, But when they
add sugar in it, it's to sell more of it.
And that's what the FDA is trying to be able
to do, and the food industry is really pushing back
against them. We as consumer need to be actually on
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the side of the FDA and say added sugar. I
want to know how much added sugar is in this food?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Right, that's a big, big thing right now.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Right, Yeah, you know, an educated public, you know, there
needs to be truth in advertising. You know, that's why
we have those labels on there, so that people can
pick up a product and say, hey, what is it
that I'm putting in my mouth and then choose. Yeah,
you know, if you want to have all the issues
that are involved in the added sugar, then that's your choice.
(31:11):
If you, as a consumer know better and you say, hey,
you know they're trying to sell me more, get me
addicted to this stuff, I'm going to choose something better
so I don't have that, you know, So the people
who are good are going to get more cells out
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
You know what I'm so proud of is when I'm
in the grocery line and the clerk says, I think
it was last night. This is beautiful this food because
color and you know, as natural as possible, and it's
good to kind of look at, you know, what we're
putting in our grocery cart.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Right, You know, I don't know, it's just you know,
have a little little sign as you know, junk food addict.
You know, as you go through, right, little signs up there,
you know this is this is a healthy.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Guy kind of rate.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Rate everybody as we go through. You know, there's a
little sign up above. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I just went to that market district you know which
they got live music going and it's an event. It's
like a field trip. I got lost in there. But
I like it because the aisles they're not in your way.
You're not you don't even have to go in the
aisles if you don't want. You know what I'm saying.
(32:35):
You know, it's great. So we talked about a little bit.
Anymore you want to talk about how sugar affects our
brain or go on too the immune system.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I think people got the idea on the brain. You know,
it's like the egg that smashed on the ground. You know,
this is your brain on sugar.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Have you seen that somewhere?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Do you just make well they were talking about your
brain on drugs, you know, but yeah, it shows my age.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
So how does sugar affect our immune system?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Oh? That's the other thing is that it's just there
are so many people who come in after Halloween and
and the holidays, holidays just because they've had way too
much sugar and they get.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Sick because it decreases their immune system. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I mean we've even done little fun types of back
in our days we had availability of microscopes and you know,
taken a little yeah, you know, I know, and we
take a bunch of sugar and then we check the
how the white blood cells react, and then we let
everything get back to normal and how much better. But
it slows down your immune system. White blood cells will
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not chase down a bacteria or a virus nearly as
well or as efficiently. If you have a whole bunch
of sugar.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Is it get sluggish?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
They get very sluggish, you know. I've seen it on
the bud Slides Life cell blood slides when we were
watching that. And then there is a very definite drop
in the immune system function when you take in too
much sugar.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I know, if I'm starting to feel not like myself
or like my immune system has been compromised at all,
I just cut it all out.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Actually, we make chicken soup, Yes, chicken soup for the soul. Yes,
lots of garlic and.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
All those good types of things. I put a whole
bunch of herbs in there. Herbs are amazing for the
immune system. You know, you get all the fat particles
in there, add some whole grain bread in there, you know,
and you can really you know, you get the all
the nutrients in there, and you can you can actually
feel the difference.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Oh yeah, yeah. We kind of grew up with that
with my dad, you know, doing that, and we've been
doing making a big pot on the weekends and sure,
yeah last just a couple of days. It's nice. But
we're not talking about chicken soup. We're talking about sugar. Okay,
chicken soup for the soul, yeah before that's right. So
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talk about sugar and cardiovascular disease.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Very strong link between that our ceosclerosis. The sugar definitely
causes an increase in free radical pathology, which damages the
vascular system. Yea, damages the heart. The heart is probably
one of the most sensitive organs in our body, just
because it's constantly beating. We even sometimes rest our mind,
but we don't really ever rest our heart. You know.
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It's like, okay, heart, you know you've had a really
rough day. Why don't you take five.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Minutes off not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Not a good idea. So, cardiovascular disease, there's a very
strong link between cardiovascular disease and the amount of sugar
that you take in. So one of the things is
if someone has had cardiovascular one of the things we
definitely tell them is that they have to eliminate sugar
out of their diet, all the non natural you know,
so very strong link on that, very well proven prevent
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cardiovascular disease. Cut out the sugar.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
How about sugar's link to diet Betes.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Well, that's pretty obvious. Yes, everybody can tell a big
difference along those lines. Having a diet low in sugar
is a very important type of aspect. Watching the glycemic index,
how much sugar actually goes through the system, increasing the fiber,
all the nutrients. Really we can see type two diabetes
(36:20):
is always curable, right, Let me repeat that Type two
diabetes is always.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Curable if the person chooses to.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
If the person chooses.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
To, I mean, we all have a decision, and we
see that, we see people that are taking responsibility for
their health, practice proactive healthy lifestyle, you know, practice proactive.
It just can't happen and you can't blame anybody else.
We can't go around blaming these companies that are adding sugar.
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We decide whether we're going to buy it or not.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Right, right, right, We can make intelligent choices and you know,
we can exercise, we can do the lifestyle types of changes.
Or it's a lazy attitude is really where that sugar
comes in. You know, I just want things done for
me and let other people make my decisions for me,
getting down and saying, hey, I am in charge of
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my life. I'm not going to let Wall Street or
whoever make my decisions for me and take care of me,
because they're not going to. No, they're not, you know,
the responsibility of the people. And we're seeing that, we
see a change in the health consciousness in the way
that shoppers and Wall Street will respond to that. They
want to make money and if people are making the
right choices, then they're going to say, hey, we have
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to make the right choices.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Too, because the public is But we got to start.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
The change starts with the public. That's why we're doing
this radio programs to educate people. Right right, most of
the people were never going to see in here, you know,
so it's not about us. It's about the public and
we're trying to do what's right for them.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Let's talk about the big one. No pun intended, But
how does sugar contribute to obesity?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Oh? There's no link whatsoever. And what is funny is
that there was I saw a panel of six ducks
who were saying that there is no link between the
amount of sugar people take in obesity. And what's interesting
is we found out is all of them were paid
by the sugar industry.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Interesting people will do when.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
They yeah, and of course all of them were fat,
they were all obese, and they're going, no, there's no Yeah,
there's no link between that. There's no scientific broot.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's like you've got to be kidding, you know, and
steno to believe it, that's the issue.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, you know, they have found that if you repeat
something long enough that there's a certain percentage of people
who are actually going to believe it. So you know,
we need to have.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I think we're getting smarter.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I think we're getting smarter.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Okay, we're getting tired of it and getting smarter. Okay,
when we come back, let's talk about alternatives to sugar
and honey. Stevia we'll be talking about that when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Sounds great.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
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listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert Praither
of Holistic Integration for our mission is restoring hope to
our patients. Talking today about sugar Sweet treat or a
toxic trick and doctor Prayther a very interesting show. You're
talking about the average American. This is the average American
eats seventy five pounds of sugar and a lot less fiber.
(44:38):
And we need to turn that around where we're eating
more fiber. You said four times.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Yeah, we need to be basically only eating about twenty
five pounds of sugar a year and about one hundred
pounds of fiber.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
I mean that's hard to monitor. We have to measure
it every.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Time we do. Now you know you can add fiber.
You know, be thinking about different things. Let's say you're
gonna make cookies. You know you should putting in a
lot of fiber, and that would be whole grains, oats,
whole wheat things. Always looking to add the fiber into
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whatever we eat.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Do you notice when I talk about cooking, I'm always
say you get the soup, our listeners, our patients know.
I don't enjoy cooking. I do the cleanup.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Yeah, and I actually love cooking.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
So you know that it relaxes you.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, and it tendss you up. Oh yeah, so you
know we have a it works well progressive marriage.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
So let's talk about you know, sugars. What are the
alternative sugars?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Well, you know, instead of buying the sugars that they
there's a whole bunch of different types of things out there.
And first off, most of the artificial sweeteners are really
bad for you and can actually be more addictive than
you know, even the sugar itself, and have even greater.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Are you talking about the substitute?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
You know, the substitute in the diet drinks? Right? You
know which ones are actually the ones that are good
for you? And probably my favorite is stevia. Stevia, you
know it is actually a natural sweetener. It has negative calories.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
It's negative calories.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
It actually as you process the stevia. It takes more
calories than actually you get from it.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Wow, So it has a negative everybody's going out.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
And Cevia has been around for an awful long time
and used, and it took a while for the FDA
to approve it just because of the artificial sweetening group
didn't want it in there because it was so much
better than the artificial sweeteners. But now there are pops
with stevia, There are sweeteners with stevia. You know, if
(46:47):
you use stevia as part of your cooking, if you
buy pops with stevia, there's an awful lot of benefits
with stevia with really no notice.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I just tried when I got it fresh time with stevia,
I was great.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, you know. Yeah. In Japan, that's the non sugar
sweetener that they've used for years. South America, almost all
the pops have stevia in it. So all the diet
pops basically in South America and Japan for a long
time have been using stevia and it just doesn't have
the negative side effects that you find in other so
it's a great one for diabetics. It actually kills yeast,
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so it has some medicinal values to it. So it's
a great one to really get that sweet flavor without
all the problems. And it's basically from a leaf that's
found in South America. Matter of fact, I know some
people to get the sweetener, they actually grow the stevia
plant and then break off a leaf and then put
it into different types of things to get the sweetener.
(47:46):
And you don't actually have a little bit of that
pungent taste that sometimes you get with the granulated stevia.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
So it's a very nice alternative. One of my favorites.
Another one that I actually like is xylotov that's gum, Yeah,
xylotol gum. What's nice about xylotal is it actually will
help with cavities. So if you're giving your kids some
other gums, xylotol really is the best one to have
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in there, or stevia, because xylotol actually has a strengthening.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
Effect on the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah, that's the kind because most of the other different
types of artificial sweeteners I have reactions. I can tell
I don't do well. You've seen that before, so you know,
there's an awful lot of problems. So you know, staying
away from most of the artificial sweeteners. Really, if you're
going to go with a sweetener, the best one to
go with is Stevia. Xylotl is also something that I
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liked too.
Speaker 1 (48:43):
How about honey?
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Honey? That's a really good question, you know, is to honey.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
It was something I didn't grow up with.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Yeah, it is honey and okay, sugar and honey. There
is a different response on that. Now. One of the
things is if you have the really really raw honey,
you know, has all that wax and stuff in it,
you know, and that actually produces a lot of fiber
the wax in it. Yeah, you know, so there is
a benefit along those lines. The more raw the honey,
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the better it is as you purify it, you know,
even as you go through some of the process, it
becomes a stronger type of thing. But there is a
better effect with honey than there is and the more
it's correct, more local you can actually because some of
the pollen in there, it helps to cut down on
some of the allergies that are associated with that.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Yeah, I know. Actually we are seeing some what are
those bee houses be beehives, bee hives in the next
neighborhood over from us to pass his house. We're hoping
the beekeeper is out, so he is selling the honey
that's local, yes, yes, so you know better of a
mile away.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Having the honey, actually having the wax with it is
the best way to really eat it because it gives
you a lot of fiber on a whole grain piece
of bread with some natural butter on top. And I'm
getting hungry right now, and that that's actually good for it.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
You had your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
And well I did, yes, yes, but you know, you
start thinking about those things. Now.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Let's talk about fruit juices. It's a big thing, especially
with kids.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Yes, for fruit juices, there is a real problem, especially
with people with high trechless rides. If you have the
purified fruit juices. You know, when you get fruit and
it's raw form, you have a lot of fiber in there.
They take all the fiber out. They also pasteurize it.
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That's why it's better to have, you know, if you're
having orange juice, have the pulp in there because that
provides the fiber that goes along old. No, kids, kids
are so I actually you know I am.
Speaker 1 (50:54):
From you.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, you know, when we were getting orange juice, I
wanted the ones with the pulp because it made me
feel good. I didn't know why now I do. And
my sisters always look at me like, you know, and
my mom would go, oh, see this is what and
they would kick me underneath the table because I wanted
the good stuff. So, if you are drinking a lot
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of fruit juice, you know, and you want to have that.
In other words, the fresh squeeze with the pulp in
there is your best because as you longer it sits,
the more it's pasteurized, the less vitamins and metals you're
gonna get, the less fiber. So fruit is really really
good for you. But really in its four all form
is the best way to have it. And if you're
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going to do orange juice, get one of those little
you know, put the oranges in and so yeah, I know,
I know, but then get the pulp. So if you're
buying fruit juice and then you have a choice between
pulp and non pulp, get the pulp. It's better for you.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
Yeah, you're just gonna watch taste some of them on
pasteurized juices, you know.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Well it's free. You know the reason that they pasteurize it,
do all those types of things is because fresh gets
broken down pretty quickly, so the longer it is from
the time you squeeze it until you get it, then
it doesn't taste as good because that's natural, that's the
way it should be working. That's why they do a
lot of processing, do a lot of things to food,
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because fresh is always better than if it's been sitting
on the shelf for a long time.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Well, what about artificial sweeteners?
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Oh, I really really don't like artificial sweeteners. There's a
tremendous amount of problems with them. You know, there's a
lot of cancer links, there's an awful lot of brain issues,
you know. So if you can avoid except for exylotol
as an artificial sweetener, I like that one, but most
of the others I really don't.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
We saw a comedian this week that was talking about
going through drive through. It's really not funny, but he
was quite a large total yeah, and embarrassed of his order,
you know, the only one in the car. So he
was acting like there were two people, you know.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
Or he was picking up something for someone yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Or what would she want?
Speaker 2 (53:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
So he gets all this food and then he says,
diet PEPSI please, you know, it's just.
Speaker 2 (53:25):
After your five big max. Then you want to diet
pepsi with it, yes.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
And how that evens it out, I don't know. Well,
dot your prayther we have little less than a minute.
Anything you want to conclude with on the show of.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
Sugar, Yes, people like their sweets. There are ways to
do it naturally. So one of the things that I
would do is I always when I make cookies is
I use whole grains. I had oatmeal to it, and
I also put some Stevie in there, which have kind
of like this recipe along those lines. Then I use
some rapid or sugar and I use that combination so
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I get a little as possible as few as calories
to the highest amount of nutrients going for the denser nutrients.
The less calories is how you're going to really help you.
Speaker 1 (54:10):
Help Okay, well, thank you, very interesting show. As always,
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