BADR BAKRY

By: Badr Bakry

From the book Cleanse Your Life Now

http://tinyurl.com/nrn7sr

Most of us love sugar, but do you know what sugar really is? The pure white sugar that is in so many of our foods is an unnatural substance. It is produced mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets by industrial processes that refine it down to pure sucrose. The process strips away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients. What is left is a concentrated unnatural substance that the human body is not able to handle.

Refined sugar has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. Not only does it completely lack nutritional value, it also robs the body of enzymes, minerals and vitamins, especially B-vitamins. Symptoms of B-vitamin deficiency include: fatigue, depression, anxiety, inability to concentrate, poor memory, insomnia and irregular heart beat.

Sugar Addiction

Ninety-five percent of us are addicted to sugar to some degree! Refined sugar is a pure chemical. In my opinion, it is like heroin, and even more of a threat because it’s legal and cheap. It’s a chemical that has been stripped through the refining process of all the natural food nutrition that originally resided in the plant. Heroin and sugar are produced by very similar processes. In producing heroin, the opium is first extracted from the poppy. The opium is then refined into morphine. The chemists then take the morphine and further refine it into heroin. Similarly, sugar is first pressed as a juice from the cane or beet and refined into molasses. Then, it is refined into brown sugar, and finally into strange white crystals, that are an alien chemical to the human system. It’s no wonder that people not only develop a strong taste for sugar, but an insatiable craving for it so that they never seem to get enough of this poison. It is an addictive drug that causes diabetes, obesity, tooth and gum decay, stomach problems, and mental disturbances… these are just some of known diseases.

The average person now consumes about 155 lbs. of sugar per year — this is per man, woman and child. Soft drink and soda manufacturers are the largest single users of refined sugar. A 12-ounce can of soda has 10 to 13 teaspoons of sugar. Guess who are the largest soda consumers? Teenagers and children. Soda marketers focus on brand-building among younger consumers. Over 50 million soda drinks are consumed everyday in United States alone! Who benefits from this?

Where do you find sugar?

Where not to find it, should be the question. If you examine the “foods” in any supermarket more closely and start reading labels, you will find just about everything contains sugar. Most of the foods are loaded with it – from cereals, to soups, to ketchup, to hot dogs, candy, chocolate, sodas, soft drink, sport drinks… even baby’s formula and baby food.

What can sugar do to you?

One of the most dangerous habits and addictions in our lives today is sugar. It is a proven fact that sugar increases insulin levels, which can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, premature aging, obesity, tooth and gum decay, stomach problems, mental disturbances and many other physical and mental problems.

Sugar use also creates blood sugar imbalances in the body. When blood sugar drops too low after eating a high-sugar food, the fuel supply to the body is impaired, with adverse effects on mental function, physical energy and emotional stability. Symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can range anywhere from headaches, irritability and shaking when hungry to explosive anger, panic attacks, or crying easily for no apparent reason. Sugar can affect the quality of your life and your health dramatically. Many studies have shown that sugar is very effective in weakening the immune system and is a source of fuel for feeding cancer and tumors.

• Sugar can suppress the immune system.
• Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
• Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.
• Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
• Sugar can cause arthritis.
• Sugar can cause asthma.
• Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).
• Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
• Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.
• Sugar can increase cholesterol.
• Sugar can impair the structure of DNA.
• Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.
• Sugar can damage the pancreas.
• Sugar can increase the body’s fluid retention.
• Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement.
• Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine.
• Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.
• Sugar can adversely affect school children’s grades and cause learning disorders.
• Sugar can cause depression.
• Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
• Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.
• Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer.
• Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
• Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer.
• Sugar increases the risk of polio.
• High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
• Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
• Sugar can lead to prostate cancer.
• Sweet food items increase the risk of breast cancer.
• Sugar is a risk factor in cancer of the small intestine.
• Sugar causes constipation.
• Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
• Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell carcinoma.
• Sugar can cause liver tumors.
• Too much sugar can kill your sex life.
• Sugar can cause fatigue, moodiness, nervousness and depression.
• Sugar is common choice of obese individuals.
• High fructose consumption has been linked to liver disease.
• Sugar adds to the risk of bladder cancer.

There are 146 reasons why sugar is ruining your health, according to Dr. Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., the author of the book Lick the Sugar Habit. A recent study by scientists at Johns Hopkins shows that sugar is a cancer-feeder. Moreover, eliminating sugar in the diet cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. No other food contributes to as many health problems as sugar. If you want to achieve your optimum health potential, avoiding sugar is the best place to start.

Action

Get rid of the sugar and sugar products in your kitchen. Get rid of all the products that are made with refined sugar (sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, maltodextrin), including all commercial brands of cookies, candy, pop, ice cream, pastry, cakes, pies, soda, soft drinks, energy drinks and commercial juice.

Natural Sugar Alternatives

The best sweeteners to use are those that occur naturally, such as raw honey, stevia, raw, wild mesquite pod meal, raw organic yacon syrup or organic sun-cured wild crafted vanilla beans.

Keep in mind that even natural sweeteners can affect your blood sugar and contribute to cravings for sweets. For this reason, it’s best to avoid eating sweets by themselves; instead, include dessert made with whole foods as part of a balanced meal, no more than two to three times per week.

1- Honey

Before white sugar was even invented, people used honey both for food, and to support a wide range of body functions. It is natural and it helps improve your daily energy naturally. Honey has been shown to have an antimicrobial effect against many bacteria and fungi. Many medical studies found that honey speeds up the healing of wounds, and it can help heal ulcers, as well as offering relief from diarrhea, insomnia, sunburn, and sore throats.

2- Stevia

This native South American herb is now grown and cultivated throughout the world. Stevia is much sweeter than sugar, but does not affect blood sugar levels, and can be used for sweetening beverages and for baking. Stevia is easily digested, dissolves quickly, is safe for diabetics and has no calories or carbohydrates.

3- Raw, wild mesquite pod meal

It’s a nutritious condiment ground from the bean pods of the mesquite tree. This aromatic powder or meal can be used as a sweetener or flavor enhancer.

4- Raw organic yacon syrup

It’s a new vegan sweetener. Pressed from the yacon root, this gift from nature has been enjoyed for centuries in the Andean highlands of Peru.

5- Organic sun-cured wild crafted vanilla beans

These are moist and very plump beans. These vanilla beans have a complex aroma, and a dark, robust flavor. Vanilla beans are ideal for making your own healthy desserts and smoothies.

Take back control of your health and your life!

By: Badr Bakry

Excerpt from the book Cleanse Your Life Now

http://tinyurl.com/nrn7sr

By: Badr Bakry

Excerpt from the book Cleanse Your Life Now

http://tinyurl.com/nrn7sr

Cleansing is a holistic approach to better health, natural weight management, and  increased energy and vitality. It is the first step to healthy and positive lifestyle changes and healing your body. It addresses all aspects of health, and is the process of removing build-ups and accumulated stress and toxins from your body. It also eliminates elements from your body that it was not designed to have, especially heavy metals and toxic chemicals. The process of cleansing benefits your entire system — blood, tissues, everything — and hydrates your body, which promotes healing and increases energy. Toxins can accumulate in many ways. The foods we eat, the environment in which we live and daily emotional stresses, all contribute to stored toxins in our system. Cleansing is a widely used treatment and concept in holistic and alternative medicine. It can be a tool to help relieve symptoms and a preventative defense to increase your overall health, vitality and resistance to disease.

Your body is naturally designed to cleanse itself and eliminates toxins through your organs. It collects and removes toxins from your cells, breaks them down in the liver, and then eliminates them from your body through the colon, lymph, skin, lungs, nose, ears and eyes. Your body does this naturally every day. Every time you cough, sneeze, exhale, sweat, urinate, defecate, have a fever or develop skin problems – these are all signs that your body is trying to eliminate toxins.

Why Do We Need to Cleanse?
We live in a very toxic world and we can’t escape the reality of pollution all over the world, on many levels and in different areas of life. We’re engulfed in toxins of all kinds, both external and internal. There are environmental toxins – chemicals pollutants in our air, water and food; radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi and microwaves; pesticides and herbicides. There are toxins we ingest: caffeine, sugar, alcohol, fast foods, coffee, soft drinks, drugs, prescription and over-the-counter medications, food additives, chemicals, nicotine, and trans-fat. Our systems get clogged up from all the fast food, junk food, carbohydrates, processed and overcooked foods that offer little to no nutrients at all. The small intestine is unable to fully digest these foods, especially refined carbohydrates. The older indigestible carbohydrates begin to ferment; it creates toxemia, gas and stress throughout the entire digestive tract. In addition, the body cannot keep up with the all the other toxins we have in our lives. It’s forced to store some of these toxins because it’s overloaded by our unhealthy lifestyles and environment. When the body reaches its limit and is unable to keep up with all the built-up poisons, these poisons start to spill over into the blood, causing serious health problems. For most people, their cells never get a break from the poor quality foods they ingest and from over-eating.  Before the cells eliminate the residue from one meal, we eat another meal, and more toxins are dumped into our cells. The cell becomes what it cannot eliminate. It is a fact – we are what we eat!

Even children are exposed to lots of fast food and junk food. We start very early by feeding infants processed baby food. Then, more processed foods and junk foods are added little by little, until eventually they are regularly eating hamburgers and french fries, and drinking soda. They grow up with a very unhealthy diet of refined food and sugary snacks. Combined with habits of overeating and late night meals, it all contributes to serious health issues.

Most illness starts in the colon. If you are constipated and don’t eliminate daily, you are in trouble. This is a sign that your colon is packed with years of built-up waste. Any food or substances that your body can’t deal with remain undigested in your colon and will continue to build up. Imagine leaving some food out for a couple of weeks. How would it look and smell? The build-ups in your body are even worse. Most people have years of build-up in their systems. Imagine how that looks and smells. Once you accumulate enough of these toxic build-ups, it becomes problematic to your health and your energy level. You will experience cellular dysfunction and many health challenges that can lead to chronic diseases. Toxins can contribute to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, respiratory illness, kidney disease, liver dysfunction, autoimmune disease, hormonal imbalances, obesity and cancer. Even acne problems and hemorrhoids are signals that the body’s waste is being forced out through the skin, since the colon is backed-up and is not being sufficiently emptied. The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates that more than 80% of all illnesses have environmental and lifestyle causes.

Symptoms of Toxicity

• Headaches or migraines
• Sleep disturbances
• Chronic cough
• Sneezing attacks
• Dark circles under your eyes
• Chronic itchy or runny nose
• Acne
• Allergies
• Hives or other rashes
• Excessive sweating or sweat with an unpleasant odor
• Rapid or irregular heartbeat
• Indigestion or heartburn
• Constipation or diarrhea
• Frequent nausea or vomiting
• Chronic intestinal gas or very foul smelling gas
• Chronic pain and stiffness in muscles or joints
• Feeling faint, shaky or weak
• Binge eating or craving for certain foods
• Binge drinking / alcoholism
• Fluid retention
• Urinary urgency, frequency, or unable to hold urine
• Chronic fatigue
• Overweight and obesity
• Difficulty in losing weight or maintaining weight loss
• Little interest in or enthusiasm about life
• Lack of coordination physically or mentally
• Restless, agitated
• Hyperactive
• Depression
• Unexplained anxiety or fear
• Irritability
• Excessively angry and reactive
• Confusion
• Poor concentration
• Difficulty making decisions
• Fatigue
• Frequent cold

Cleansing and Weight Management
The average person carries 10-15 pounds of accumulated waste in the colon. With the cleansing program, you can release this extra weight within a couple of weeks, and you will feel healthy – not only because you’ve lost weight, but also because you’ve eliminated toxins and potential diseases that were affecting your whole system. Cleansing is a great way to help your body naturally eliminate extra pounds of waste. It’s also an important step towards developing and maintaining a healthy and balanced body. Your body needs this break from assaults to allow it to remove as many impurities from your system as possible. In addition to adding the good food, drinks and nutrients that your body needs, this cleansing process will boost your immune system and help your body cleanse itself, rebuild and rejuvenate. Fifty percent of the immune system is located in or around the digestive system, especially the large intestine. Cleansing is an important step to restore your immune system and protect your body against environmental toxins and illness.

Cleansing is the best gift you can give yourself and is the most important step to obtaining and maintaining good health. Until you cleanse your system and remove the toxins from your body, nutrients will not absorb properly. Digestion will be difficult and can lead to weight gain, constipation, gas problems, bloating, headaches, bad breath, skin problems, allergy symptoms, fatigue, anxiety, depression, irritability, frequent infections, insomnia and low energy. These are all indications that your system is overloaded with toxic build-ups.

The human body has never before been exposed to as much pollution as it is today. Every day, every hour, every moment we are bringing foreign toxic chemicals into our bodies. Our cells do not eliminate all these additional toxins. The body cannot keep up, and the noxious elements are being stored in our cells and tissues.

We are also under a lot more stress today than ever before. Most of us experience many stressful emotions on a daily basis, such as fear, anger, hatred or jealousy. There are wars, economic crises and plenty of negative news. Today, we are facing very tough and challenging problems in many different areas of our lives. People are losing their homes, their businesses, investments, retirement and their jobs. Millions of people are facing bankruptcy or foreclosure, and many companies are going out of business.  Fear is in every home today, fear of unemployment, fear of losing the house, the car, the business, the income; it is all over the world. These emotions result in an excess of adrenalin production, which becomes poison to our body. In addition to the food waste and the stressful emotions, there are other toxic substances from modern living that we were not designed to handle. Without additional cleansing, toxins are built up faster than they are eliminated, resulting in continual weight gain, health problems and loss of energy. Cleansing can bring clarity and can help our bodies recover and restore.

The Benefits of Cleansing

• Gain more energy and become more vibrant.
• Increase your mental clarity.
• Reach your natural weight.
• Rejuvenate your body and reverse signs of aging.
• Naturally have clear and young-looking skin.
• Balance your mind and body.
• Reawaken your intuition.
• Save time on cooking and lower your fuel bills.
• Grow as a person and achieve your potential.
• Build a healthy lifestyle.
• Achieve emotional balance and cultivate happiness.
• Release negative emotions and blocks.
• Feel less overwhelmed and more grounded.
• Increase your positive thinking.
• Understand your body in a simple and direct way.
• Detoxify your body naturally; get rid of build-ups and toxins in your system.
• Strengthen your immune system to prevent and fight diseases.
• Naturally stop smoking, overeating and other compulsions and food addictions.
• Break emotional attachments to food, drinks and other substances.
• Improve your eyesight.
• Have sharper concentration and improve your memory.
• Contribute to saving the Earth by eating healthy food.
• Enhance your spiritual connection, your ability to commune with God and to pray, meditate and perform whatever other spiritual practices you wish to cultivate.
• Eat truly natural food and help improve the condition of our environment
• Support your local economy and local farmers.
• Strengthen, rejuvenate, energize, and revitalize your mind, physical body and emotions.
• Help remove potentially toxic metals from your body.
• Boost your immune system.
• Digest your food more efficiently.
• Eliminate bad breath and help freshen up your breath at the same time.
• Energize and reinvigorate your body.
• Eliminate stored wastes and lose weight.
• Improve vitality and energy levels in just a few days.
• Improve circulation through purifying the liver, kidney and blood.
• Enhance mental clarity.
• Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
• Boost weight loss.

Cleansing can also be helpful for anyone suffering from immune system problems, chronic diseases, fatigue syndrome, chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia and many other conditions, including: obesity, heart disease, allergies, anxiety, mental illness, arthritis, asthma, digestive disorders, chronic infections, depression, diabetes, high cholesterol, headaches and high blood pressure. Cleansing is a great way to assist the transition from an unhealthy diet to a healthy one. Most people also notice improvement in their hair, skin texture and nail growth.

Written by Badr Bakry
From the book Cleanse Your Life Now, available at amazon.com   http://tinyurl.com/nrn7sr

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