I’ve been writing books for years and I often offer commentary on the most common dilemmas presented to us through the modern technological production of food.

Above all else they always ask me, "what do you think, am I fat?" or "how can I lose weight?"

Clearly, body weight is today a very important social factor. Most of us want to have a socially acceptable body.

However, one in four people on this planet is obese, and one in five has heart disease.

Children are becoming increasingly sick, to the point where we are now starting to diagnose metabolic syndromes in the youngest of children even in outpatient clinics.

Type 2 diabetes has reached pandemic proportions, and the number of people diagnosed with cancer is growing from one year to the next.

And what are we doing? We’re chasing after an ideal body counting calories.

I’ve noticed that machines which count calories for you are now becoming popular.

They are, in my opinion, one of the greatest absurdities of the field of nutrition.

Sugar – all around us

Many nutritionists recommend you exercise more intensively and take in fewer calories.

Wrong!
Not every calorie is the same. A calorie of bad carbohydrates is not the same as a calorie of good carbohydrates, bad protein is not the same as good protein, and glucose, which the superior human brain lives off of, is not the same as artificial fructose sugar.

I will explain it all to you in detail in the text.
Sugar? Oh, yes, we immediately associate it with something sweet. According to the Chinese, sweet is one of the flavors which is necessary in order for us to retain a balance in the organism.

We eat it starting from our early childhood, we are used to its flavor. A number of us go through a proper "withdrawal" if we don’t eat something sweet on a daily basis.

Well, many multinational companies have recognized this weakness of ours and offered us countless products which contain sugar as their primary ingredient.

Sugar is the magical and secret ingredient behind their mega profits. It is an essential supplement in almost 99% of refined products which the shelves in supermarkets are overflowing with.

Ketchup, spaghetti sauce, instant soup, break, instant food, carbonated beverages, children’s food, dried ingredients of animal origin, countless packaged mixtures of grains, fruit yogurt.

The list is endless, and all the items have one thing in common – they contain sugar!

It’s there to satisfy our taste buds and increase our desire to buy that same product again, but also so that our nearest and dearest grow to love them.

And it works, unfortunately, because regardless of our age or gender, we are all equally vulnerable when it comes to sugar.

It’s no surprise that over recent years leading scientists around the world have been pointing their fingers at sugar and blaming it as the lead culprit behind entire nations becoming ill.

What sugar really is

When we think about sugar we most often think about saccharine, a molecule which is made up of two parts – glucose and fructose.

Glucose is a sugar which makes its way to the superior brain, feeding it, while fructose travels to the liver.

Sugar saccharine is obtained by extraction from sugar beet and sugar cane.
 
In other words, pure saccharine is nothing but a hard stick which we would have quite a hard time consuming if we wanted to.
We wouldn’t really satisfy our sweet tooth with it.

But through the refining process, which removes plant fibers, we get crystal, white sugar which has no traces of neither pigments nor minerals.

This is that "perfect" product which will sweeten most of what we eat today, and with continual consumption it will silently and bitterly ruin us, causing a whole range of acute and chronic conditions.
You most likely already know that 4 g of sugar is equal to 1 dessert spoon.

Don’t be surprised to discover that just 250 ml of the most well-known carbonated beverage contains 10 spoons of sugar, meaning that when you drink 2 cups of it, you’ve taken 10 spoons of sugar into your body.

And coffee? If you have two a day, and can’t help sweeten it, you have consumed at least 2 additional spoons of sugar.

If you’re among those who cook at home rather than go out to eat, even if you are careful about your sugar intake, you can end up having significant amounts of it sneaking into your meals through various ingredients.

Even if you carefully choose your ingredients, do not be surprised by the fact that you can be consuming more than an incredible 22 spoons of sugar, without even being aware of it.

Our maximum daily intake of sugar should be no more than 9 spoons!

Over the last fifty years, modern food technology didn’t just produce 3500 various chemicals which we consume through the food we eat on a daily basis but it also used sugar to "lure us in" with the taste.

Statistics show that since the sixties of the last century and straight up to today, as the global consumption of sugar has increased, there has been a corresponding rise in the incidence of cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease.

Cause of evolutionary changes

World renowned endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig of the University of California claims that sugar is as many as 1000 times more responsible for modern-day diseases and health conditions than the intake of fat.

Over the past few decades it has been blamed for why we are becoming increasingly fatter and sicker.

In England the average person consumes on a weekly basis, without realizing it, an astounding 238 spoons of sugar.

There, too, it is to blame for the growing obesity trend, particularly among children.
Sugar is today also being blamed for an evolutionary change in our appearance.
The sweet, silent killer, it seems, is at the top of the list of foods which kills.

Many scientists label it as being equally dangerous as cocaine or cigarettes, both of which are difficult to quit consuming.

The "No Sugar" movement is therefore gaining more and more scientific support in order or countries to raise awareness and citizens to be warned in order for them to intake as little of this "sweet pleasure" as possible.

Many of you have experienced your saliva glands being activated at just the very thought of it.

All of the above indicates that we have already "overdosed" on sugar and that the bad habit of consuming ingredients rich in sugar and fat are making us older and sicker.

Sugar and body acidity

Sugar causes acidity in the body. The concept of an unbalanced consumption of acidic and alkaline ingredients in our food first appeared as far back as 1933, when William Howard, a doctor in New York at the time, published the book "A New Health Era".

It caused a great stir, as in it Dr. William Howard claimed that all diseases are the result of autointoxication and that it is caused solely because of the accumulation of acidity in the body.

When you consume an acidic ingredient, that is, after you digest it, it will leave an acidic residue in your body.

If you have a dietary preference for consuming excessively large amounts of acidic food, it results in too large an accumulation of acidic deposits, which causes hyper-acidity of the body known as acidosis.

Sugar, and all refined ingredients which contain it, are substances which cause acidity, that is, the acidity of the body.

Over the long-term acidity slows down the body’s ability to work efficiently, causing a lack of energy, poor health profile and problems with obesity.

It results in a loss of essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium and potassium.
By releasing these minerals, the body constantly tries to neutralize the hyper-acidity, that is, to establish a healthy pH balance, which is around 7.

Carbonated beverage loaded with sugar are particularly rich in phosphorus, a mineral which causes a loss of calcium. Refined ingredients rich in sugar, such as white bread, cakes and pastries also cause acidity in the body.

Excessive consumption of these foods makes calcium from the bones to cancel out the acidic reaction.

Even though many scientists previously pointed out that they do not agree with the claim that excessive acidity in the body is to blame for numerous diseases, today we know there is a condition referred to as low-level chronic metabolic acidosis. 

It causes premature aging, loss of muscle and bone mass, and the appearance of kidney stones caused by the release of the alkaline mineral calcium.

Cancerous cells live on sugar

Today there is a heated scientific debate regarding the question of whether or not to eliminate entirely the intake of sugar by cancer patients.

Studies have proven that as many as 70% of cancer patients do not want to be starved.

Because of that a number of scientists believe that eliminating foods which contain sugars (and foods with sugars are all around us) could lead to cancer cachexia – a state which leads to significant weight loss and which can have fatal consequences.

On the other hand, a number of scientists believe that sugar should in fact be eliminated (as confirmed by recent studies at Harvard Medical School) for the simple reason that cancerous cells draw their energy from glucose.

Glucose is formed through the process of glycolysis which takes place in the cytoplasm of cells.

When a person is healthy, the glucose, which has been produced is converted into pyruvates, then it goes through mitochondria and with the presence of oxygen it burns as energy.

But in persons with cancer what occurs is anaerobic glycolysis, a process where there is no oxygen. This makes it impossible for the mitochondria, which regulates the healthy operation of cells, to do its job.

The final result is the creation of lactic acid, which can only be processed in the liver, with the final product again being – glucose. 

That means a return back into the blood flow and the feeding of cancerous cells because those cells are constantly "seeking out" glucose in order to survive!

This is why most people, including myself, minimize and eliminate sugar and everything which contains it in a nutrition strategy to prevent and fight cancer.

The same reason is found in the treatment of candidiasis – the objective is to starve the harmful cells and stimulate the process of apoptosis – when they begin to eat themselves.

I would like to emphasize the importance of salvestrol, an anti-cancerous substance the discovery of which by Dr. Burk and Dr. Potter is, according to them, more important than the discovery of vitamins!

Salvestrols are not sweet but are rather very, very bitter, which is further evidence that cancer cells really like sweets.

We therefore recommend cancer patients to implement an elimination program with which they minimize their consumption of all types of sugar.

Particular emphasis is put on products which contain HFCS – high fructose corn syrup.

Food is medicine for the 21st century

When you look at the overall situation, you will notice that food has really become medicine in the 21st century but it can also be a very harmful weapon, in your very own hands!

We are surprised there is an increase in cancer rates in spite of the fact our healthcare systems are significantly more advanced than they were previously. Yes, they are.

But we ignore the fact we are still simply unaware of the fact at the same time, as we are improving our health systems, we are also increasing our intake of sugar and by doing so are creating a vicious circle.

Only you can break it. Which is why the aggressive "No Sugar" movement around the world, and among scientists as well, is not surprising.

The American Cancer Association confirms there is an abundance of scientific research which proves that healthy eating habits and exercise increase the life expectancy of people with cancer.

Further, patients who are diagnosed with cancer are not recommended to consume any refined products at all – cookies, cakes, ready-made juices and smoothies, in short, any product which contains an excessive amount of sugar.

Aware of the danger hidden in sugar regardless of age, I’ve created a sugar-free oasis in my newly opened Doctor Nutrition Bar in Zagreb.

It’s an alkali oasis where you can buy nutritional medicine. For those with cancer we create special alkali packets created with what is scientifically the most efficient cold press method where vitamins and enzymes are maximally preserved.

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