White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan

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White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan

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White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan

You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on white

bread. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour

look " clean " and " beautiful, " destroys the beta cells of the pancreas.

That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting

yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating " beautiful "

flour. Is it worth it?

 

Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years; in

fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical

to induce the disorder in lab animals. In the research sense, giving

alloxan to an animal is similar to injecting that animal with a deadly

virus, as both alloxan and the virus are being used specifically to

cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest foods made with

alloxan-contaminated flour. Would they just as willingly consume foods

tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had a death wish, they

probably would not. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of

alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts

are not well publicized by the food industry.

 

How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari Sharma's

Freedom from Disease, the uric acid derivative initiates free radical

damage to DNA in the beta cells of the pancreas, causing the cells to

malfunction and die. When these beta cells fail to operate normally,

they no longer produce enough insulin, or in other words, they cause

one variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes. Alloxan's harmful effects

on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of Natural Medicine

calls the chemical " a potent beta-cell toxin. " However, even though

the toxic effect of alloxan is common scientific knowledge in the

research community, the FDA still allows companies to use it when

processing foods we ingest.

 

The FDA and the white flour industry could counter-argue that, if

alloxan were to cause diabetes, a higher proportion of Americans would

be diabetic. After all, more consumers consume white flour on a

regular basis than are actually diabetic. This point is valid, but it

does not disprove the alloxan-diabetes connection. While alloxan is

one cause of adult-onset type 2 diabetes, it is of course not the only

cause. As the Textbook of Natural Medicine states, " current theory

suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to injury coupled with

some defect in tissue regeneration capacity " may be a key cause. For

alloxan to cause injury to an individual's beta cells, the individual

must have the genetic susceptibility to injury. This is similar to the

connection between high-cholesterol foods and heart disease. Eating

high-cholesterol foods causes heart disease, especially in people who

have family histories of heart disease. The link between alloxan and

diabetes is as clear and solid as the link between cholesterol and

heart disease.

 

If you've been eating white bread for years and you have a family

history of diabetes, all hope is not lost for you. Studies show that

you can reverse the effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet with

vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null's Clinicians Handbook of Natural

Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the harmful

effects of administered alloxan. Now, you're not a lab rat, but you're

a mammal and vitamin E is definitely worth adding to your daily

regimen of nutritional supplements, especially if you have a history

of eating foods made with white flour and are at high risk for diabetes.

 

Even if you are already diabetic, some simple changes to your diet can

help treat your diabetes. First of all, stop eating foods made with

white flour. Even though you already have diabetes, vitamin E

supplements can still help you, as can many common foods. Garlic, for

example, does wonders for diabetes. As Dr. Benjamin Lau states in his

book Garlic for Health, " When fed garlic, the rabbits' elevated blood

sugar dropped almost as much as it did when they were given the

antidiabetic drug tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that garlic may

improve the insulin effect. "

 

If you can't handle the taste of natural garlic, you can take it in

widely available supplements. Aloe vera is a traditional diabetic

remedy in the Arabian Peninsula, and its therapeutic characteristics

are now gaining worldwide acceptance in the treatment of diabetes.

According to both human and animal research studies, aloe vera lowers

blood glucose levels by an unknown mechanism. According to the

Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, this natural hypoglycemic

effect extended over a period of 24 hours. Adding onions to your diet

(along with the garlic) can also significantly reduce your blood sugar

level. Additionally, as Dr. Michael T. Murray writes in The Healing

Power of Herbs, studies show that ginseng controls glucose in both

diabetic humans and diabetic laboratory animals.

 

It all comes down to asking if putting yourself at risk for diabetic

coma, blindness, limb amputation and death is worth eating white

bread. If you're willing to risk your quality of life and your life

itself, then go ahead and eat all the foods made with white flour you

want. However, if you want to stop poisoning yourself with alloxan, a

known toxic chemical, then make a few simple dietary changes. Eat

groceries (see related ebook on groceries) made with whole-grain wheat

flour, not processed white flour

 

Animal experiments have shown that animals which have their Beta cells

destroyed by alloxan are able to regenerate Beta cells after a few

months when taking GS, a herb grown in India. The Beta cell is the

cell that produces insulin. Diabetics needing insulin treatment (Type

1) have been able to decrease their insulin after GS therapy.

A Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products That Work By James

Howenstine MD, page 112

 

In the mid-1980s, however (when herbal remedies again were popular),

pata de vaca's continued use as a natural insulin substitute was

reiterated in two Brazilian studies. Both studies reported in vivo

hypoglycemic actions in various animal and human models. Chilean

research in 1999 reported the actions of pata de vaca in diabetic

rats. Their study determined that pata de vaca was found to " elicit

remarkable hypoglycemic effects, " and brought about a " decrease of

glycemia in alloxan diabetic rats by 39%. " In 2002, two in vivo

studies on the blood sugar-lowering effects of pata de vaca were

conducted by two separate research groups in Brazil. The first study

reported " a significant blood glucose-lowering effect in normal and

diabetic rats. " …

The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs by Leslie Taylor, page 382

 

When beta cells in the pancreas fail to secrete enough insulin, the

body loses its ability to metabolize carbohydrates and to reduce

glucose levels in the bloodstream. Researchers believe that some

people have weak free radical defenses in these beta cells, and that

free radical damage to DNA in beta cells, resulting in dysfunction or

cell death, helps cause maturity-onset diabetes. It is known, for

example, that many chemicals­including alloxan, paraquat, and certain

chemotherapeutic agents­can stimulate excessive production of oxy

radicals in the nuclei of beta cells.

Freedom From Disease by Hari Sharma MD, page 94

 

....nearly two decades later, researchers at RNT Medical College in

India induced diabetes in rabbits with intravenous injections of

alloxan. When fed garlic, the rabbits' elevated blood sugar dropped

almost as much as it did when they were given the antidiabetic drug

tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that garlic may improve the

insulin effect by either increasing the pancreatic secretion of

insulin or by releasing bound insulin.

Garlic for Health by Benjamin Lau MD PhD, page 22

 

Commercial yeasted breads, even the whole-grain varieties, often have

other problems. They typically contain flour bleach, which forms

alloxan, a compound known to cause diabetes in animals by destroying

the beta cells of the pancreas (Clinical Nutrition Newsletter, Dec.

1982). …

Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 452

 

Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus is generally recognized to be due

to an insulin deficiency.1 Although the exact cause is unknown,

current theory suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to

injury coupled with some defect in tissue regeneration capacity.

Causes of injury are most likely hydroxyl and other free radicals,

viral infection, and autoimmune reactions. alloxan, the uric acid

derivative used to induce experimental diabetes in animals, is a

potent beta-cell toxin, causing destruction via hydroxyl radical

formation.

Textbook of Natural Medicine Volumes 1-2 by Joseph E Pizzorno and

Michael T Murray, page 1197

 

In this study, mice received intraperitoneally melatonin in doses

ranging from 100 to 450 mg/kg. Results showed that such treatment

proved plasma glucose increase due to alloxan-induced pancreatic toxicity.

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page 88

 

Bleached white flour. Not only have the bran and germ been stripped

away, but bleached flour also contains a substance from the flour

bleach (alloxan) which causes diabetes in animals. Unbleached white

flour should also be avoided since it is stripped of essential nutrients.

The Enzyme Cure by Lita Lee with Lisa Turner & Burton Goldberg, page 123

 

When fed garlic, the rabbits' elevated blood sugar dropped almost as

much as it did when they were given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide.

Researchers postulated that garlic may improve the insulin effect by

either increasing the pancreatic secretion of insulin or by releasing

bound insulin.

Garlic for Health by Benjamin Lau MD PhD, page 22

 

Aloe vera also exhibits a hypoglycemic effect in both normal and

alloxan-induced diabetic mice. A small human study shows benefit in

diabetics. Five patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes ingested

half a teaspoonful of aloe 4 times daily for 14 weeks. Fasting blood

sugar in every patient fell from a mean of 273 to 151 mg/dl with no

change in body weight. The authors concluded that aloe lowers blood

glucose levels by an unknown mechanism….

Textbook of Natural Medicine Volumes 1-2 by Joseph E Pizzorno and

Michael T Murray, page 587

 

Results of this study showed that rats given vitamin E before being

administered either streptozotocin or alloxan provided protection

against the diabetogenic effects of each. It was also observed that

rats with a depleted antioxidant state due to a vitamin E and

selenium-deficient diet showed increased diabetogenic susceptibility

to normally nondiabetogenic doses of streptozotocin.

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page 312

 

Noting that the dried sap of the aloe plant to be a traditional

diabetic remedy in the Arabian peninusla, this study examined its

ability to reduce blood glucose levels in 5 non-insulin-dependent

diabetics and in Swiss albino mice made diabetic with alloxan. Results

showed that the intake of 1/2 teaspoon of aloes daily for 4-14 weeks

signficantly reduced the fasting serum glucose level fell in all

patients. Fasting plasma glucose was significantly reduced in diabetic

mice by glibenclamide and aloes after 3 days.

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page 369

 

This study examined the effects of exudate of Aloe barbadensis leaves

(oral administration of 500 mg/kg) and its bitter principle (ip

administration of 5 mg/kg) on plasma glucose levels of

alloxan-diabetic mice. Results showed that the hypoglycemic effect of

a single oral dose of aloes on serum glucose level was insignificant

in while that of the bitter principle was highly significant and

extended over a period of 24 hours.

The Clinicians Handbook Of Natural Healing by Gary Null PhD, page 369

 

Ginseng exerts numerous pharmacological effects in humans and

laboratory animals, including … improved glucose control in humans and

diabetic (alloxan-induced) rats; ….

The Healing Power of Herbs by Michael T Murray ND, page 269

 

 

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