The White Paradox

Chapter of  Sugar

Of the white we need so little because it is rich; because it is complete. It is an instinctive knowing which has been distorted by the greedy attempt to fill us with “bad stuff”!

A Danish trader traveled to Greenland hundreds of years ago. He was the second trader to go to the “new world” to build up a so called civilization. The first trader – a pioneer – who went up there into totally unknown territory, was a good man. He tried to get to know his new customers to be, to get to know about their culture, their needs, their way of living in order to serve them and him at the same time. To the benefit of everyone! After having established a small but sound trade in the colony, he returned to Denmark. The second trader going up there was a greedy man. If the Greenlandic people had been able to read his mind they wouldn’t have welcomed him with warmth and trust. The words inside him regarding this trade were: “If only I can get these people to start using sugar, tobacco and alcohol I will become a rich man. Because once they start on these they will want them continuously. His new customers were to him nothing but a money machine. What did he care about them? – Absolutely nothing! He cared for one thing only – money! And to him it was okay to get these people addicted. That was better than a life insurance!

Already then the sugar played a strange part in the food products – and it never stopped. Maybe this ancient Danish trader was the first ancestor of all sugar manufacturers – one could easily reach that conclusion looking at sugar in our food today.

Sugar is not white – and hence it doesn’t tell us to eat only limited of it. Sugar can be used much more abundant than the white food ingredients like salt. Unfortunately this is not reflected in the packets of sugar we see for sale at the supermarkets. Most packets of sugar and the cheapest contain white sugar – a dead crystallized product that has been through a standardization process called refining. A process that removes the goodness there was from the hands of nature and turns it into an unhealthy but cheap nothing.

Cheap is one of the keywords here – and a paradox in itself – not to be understood by the average person.

Looking first at what sugar really is! Sugar is probably the most common product to satisfy the sweet taste – one of our 7 tastes. It was never meant to be as dominating as it is today – and if we had used only natural products to fill our need for sweet, like for instance honey or the unprocessed sugar cane we would never have entered times of excess consumption of the sweet. The taste of these natural sweets are too rich for us to take more than our bodies need. Sweet is a taste well known to our body. A taste that tells of comforting (like dipping a dummy in sugar to calm the baby) and a taste that tells of increasing energy level in order to work more. What a beautiful combination – calming and energizing! Quite powerful stuff! This is known to our bodies and we have sought this taste from beginning of time – and definitely before the invention of nutrition panels – to get the wanted benefit.

One of the most common plants we get sugar from today is the sugar cane. Looking at the range of sugars for sale coming from this plant is quite puzzling.

The absolutely most expensive is the simply, dried juice - brown in colour, rich in taste, no crystallization, light in weight and known as “the king of sugar”. It is beautiful, healthy and alive. The fullness of the taste is the best guarantee for not using too much. This product comes from nature. It speaks a language our bodies understand. We know what to do with it – on a cellular and on an instinctive level. When it comes to the intellect we are a bit short of knowing – and to get the full benefit of the sugar we have to rely on body and instinct.

From this simple product a long row of sugar products are born. The white sugar sits at the very bottom end of these products. It has gone through the most processes and it is sold extremely cheap. The prices range from expensive on the simple and un-manipulated product to a strange low-low on the most processed. Does that make any sense? The trader going to the new market in Greenland wanted to sell them the white sugar – then his future would be secure, money wise. Is that what is still happening? Are we looked upon as money cows that can be milked at their convenience? – and never mind what it will do to us?  The answer is blowing in the wind all over the world. Wherever we look we see diabetes and obesity – and we see concerned governments trying to put responsibility into the heads of their citizens by telling them to eat healthy food. Words are easy – and people of a country not a lobby group. Take away all the words and look at what we can buy. Sorry guys, but it is rubbish, rubbish and rubbish! – and that is with the blessings of all authorities. But they are not living our lives – we are! The best way to go back to “normal” is to eat normal

(= natural) food.

Don’t be afraid of sugar.

Be very afraid of white sugar!

This is not just a matter of survival but of sanity as well.

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