No More Diabetes by Gary Null

Author:Gary Null
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781628735178
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (Perseus)
Published: 2013-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Sweet Suicide

In our discussion of obesity, we had occasion more than once to allude to the dangers of sucrose, one particularly noxious form of sugar. As we saw, while blood sugar is itself a needed element of human metabolism, if sugar that comes from food, such as a candy bar, enters the bloodstream in a big swoop, rather than in the gradual way it would if it were contained, say, in an apple, there is hell to pay in the sense of a disturbance of the distribution of insulin. Repeated stress to this system leads to diabetes.

This problem of the over consumption of sugar is the heart of the rising trajectories of both diabetes and obesity, and has so many hidden angles (such as the ads I mentioned that suggest drinking concentrated apple juice is healthy), that I want to spend some time covering the problem in depth.

The association of health problems with sugar has long been known to doctors. Indeed, going back to the beginning of the last century in England, doctors lamented the ever-increasing amount of sugar being consumed and its relationship to various illnesses. When having heard someone mention the interesting discussions that went on in the medical journals concerning these issues, I decided to flip through a few of them. I was surprised not only at the intelligence of the debate, but at the amount of concern over sugar consumption in the scientific community. The British were annually consuming approximately five pounds of sugar per person in those days. By contrast, in 1999 according to Department of Agriculture figures, Americans were consuming 158 pounds per person a year! So if the British doctors were alarmed then, our doctors should be in an uproar.

Perhaps because the profession has been concerned with this issue for so long or perhaps just because they were astute observers of society, I found many doctors in Great Britain honing in on the diabetes/sugar connection a few decades back.

I visited England circa 1972 to meet with three leading medical specialists: Dr. John Clease, Dr. John Yudkin, and Dr. Dennis Burkitt. These men opened my eyes to the epidemic of diseases that were related to our over consumption of refined carbohydrates and sugar.

I was particularly impressed by Dr. Yudkin, the first professor to hold a chair in nutrition in England. If he wasn’t a scientist I would suspect he was a magician in the tradition of Merlin, because the predictions he made in ’72 have all been proven true about forty years later. He forecast the rising occurrence of type II diabetes. He could foresee that as a nation becomes increasingly obese, with their traditionally healthy diets being replaced by fast or highly processed food, diabetes would emerge in alarming numbers.

He even guessed what the food industry’s “house” scientists would say. They would seek to convince the public that the cause of the increase in diabetes was in the genes not the foods people chose to eat. Furthermore, he predicted, all of the medical conditions associated with diabetes (i.

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