Who Needs Sugar Anyway?

Skip sugar and go straight to the source

Many people are at odds with sugar. It’s gotten such a bad rap over the years as the “silent killer” because of the increase of obesity and associated diseases of excess weight. But truly, as with most things, sugar is not the problem. What actually carries the most significance in the world’s slow and steady drudging underneath the foot of the oppressive battle of the bulge is the propensity of an individual to over indulge. Too much of anything is a bad thing, really and truly. In no sense of the word is it truer than with eating.

Sugar has calories…and a lot of it. One gram of sugar contains approximately 3.8 calories. To put that in perspective, the American Heart Association recommends that what is counted as added sugar (what is excess of consuming regular meals) should be less than 25% of the daily caloric intake: women- 6 teaspoons and 24 grams ; men- 9 teaspoons and 38 grams. Well, if you consume one of your favorite sugary snacks, you could easily consume up to 40 grams of sugars, which is the equivalent of 160 calories. I once read that a sweet roll can easily yield up to 500 calories. We as human beings, have a safe zone of how many calories we take in and put out through daily exercise and activity. If you go into an excess of intake, your body stores the excess calories as fat and therefore, you gain weight over time. As little a 5 pounds per year can easily yield an added 25 pounds in five years. That’s huge!

Therefore, it is the overindulgence of consuming processed sugar that cripples us in the fight against weight loss. So let’s look at one of my favorite sugar sources on the planet, sugarcane. Not only is it good for you, it’s good to your taste buds. It can be substituted for aerated drinks and colas.

Here are just some of benefits:

Low glycemic index, which helps keep the body fit and healthy.
The juice is beneficial for preventing as well as treating sore throat, cold and flu.
High alkalinity that helps the body in fighting against cancer; especially prostate and breast cancer.
One of my favorites: Provides glucose to the body, which is stored by and later used by muscles as energy.
Sugarcane juice provides the necessary protein and other food elements.
Sugarcane clears the urinary flow and also helps the kidney to perform its functions smoothly.
Good for digestion, working as a mild laxative secondary to high potassium content.
Since sugarcane has no simple sugar, it can be enjoyed by diabetics without any fear. * However, as with all substances, intake should still be limited for people suffering from type-2 diabetes.
Other healing fixes of sugarcane: beneficial to micturation caused due to high acidity; combating genorrhoea; healing an enlarged prostate, speed up recovery process from jaundice, and eases cystitis and nephritis.

So, now that you see how helpful sugarcane can be to the body, you can easily understand the correlation to the need of your body to have sugar as a necessary source of energy. Are you now able to remove any reservations you had against eating it? Hopefully you are. You just have to do two things: control your intake and choose better sources to tame your sweet cravings. Let sugarcane help you with both.

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