What separates Healthy Truth from the rest you ask? Well, for one, we sweeten all of our products with dates, not processed sugar.
Why are dates the better choice? Great question. Here is why:
The Healthy Truth Top 10 Reasons Are:
1. It contains no nutrients and is bad for your teeth
2. Processed Sugar can overload your liver…sugar is converted to fat in the liver and can cause all sorts of health problems
3. Excess sugar in the liver can cause non-alcoholic liver disease (So drink up but leave the sugar alone)
4. Processed sugar can cause insulin resistance. Too much glucose in the blood can be toxic, whereby insulin can stop working and cells become resistant to it.
5. Insulin resistance can lead to Type II diabetes. When the pancreas cannot keep up with the demand of producing enough insulin to keep blood sugar down, Type II diabetes is born
6. Processed sugar can feed cancer. The metabolic problems associated with sugar consumption are a known driver of inflammation and other causes of cancer
7. Processed sugar has unique fat promoting effects. Thomas Jefferson said, “All men are created equal…” He also said “Not all calories are created equal…” Or maybe that was someone else. Good quality calories can have a satiating effect on the brain while not true for sugar.
8. Processed sugar is highly addictive. Sugar causes dopamine release in the brain. Don’t try to snort it though! My nose still has not stopped bleeding.
9. Processed sugar is the leading cause of obesity in children and adults. (Need I say more?)
10. AND THE NUMBER 10 REASON THAT PROCESSED SUGAR IS BAD FOR YOU… IT AIN’T THE FAT BUT THE SUGAR THAT RAISES YOUR CHOLESTEROL AND GIVES YOU HEART DISEASE. This is due to its negative effects on metabolism
So what to do, since everything is laden with sugar? Not true, Healthy Truth’s revolutionary process uses dates as a sweetener NOT SUGAR!
Eating dates produces powerful health benefits
Since biblical times, dates were believed to possess profound healing properties. But only now science is starting to catch up with what our ancestors already knew.
Dates may appear to be sugar bombs BUT dates can aid in pregnancy says the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2011, they have provided life sustaining nutrition in regions that are often sparse in edible resources and are being researched as a powerful medicinal food, DATES WONT RAISE BLOOD SUGAR, The may 28, 2011 issue of “Nutritional Journal” reports a study in which date consumption was tested on diabetics. The study showed that while dates contain high amounts of natural sugar, they are actually a LOW-GLYCEMIC food and had no effect on blood sugar.
Lastly and most compelling, the HOLY KORAN Chapter 12-verses 22-25 states in part…”Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee; And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree; it will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.”
So, now that we have answered the burning question of whether a “little sugar” is better than a “great date,” always choose substance over instant gratification.
The exam will be on Friday and remember once again, without class participation, it is just me talking and we know that is not good because I can go on forever.
Lastly, the great Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance…” So true…so let us educate the masses for a healthier, happier world!