>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:12:18 -0800
>Subject: White flour contains diabetes-causing contaminant alloxan
>To: [apfn-1@yahoogroups.com]
>Posted Jun 2, 2005 PT by Dani Veracity
>http://www.NewsTarget.com/008191.html

You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich
on white bread. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that
makes white flour look "clean" and "beautiful," destroys the
beta cells of the pancreas. That's right; you may be
devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at risk for
diabetes, all for the sake of eating "beautiful" flour. Is
it worth it?

Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for
years; in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes
commonly use the chemical to induce the disorder in lab
animals. In the research sense, giving alloxan to an animal
is similar to injecting that animal with a deadly virus, as
both alloxan and the virus are being used specifically to
cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest foods made with
alloxan-contaminated flour. Would they just as willingly
consume foods tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had a
death wish, they probably would not. Unfortunately, most
consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal
link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized
by the food industry.

How does alloxan cause diabetes? According to Dr. Hari
Sharma's Freedom from Disease, the uric acid derivative
initiates free radical damage to DNA in the beta cells of
the pancreas, causing the cells to malfunction and die. When
these beta cells fail to operate normally, they no longer
produce enough insulin, or in other words, they cause one
variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes. Alloxan's harmful
effects on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of
Natural Medicine calls the chemical "a potent beta-cell
toxin." However, even though the toxic effect of alloxan is
common scientific knowledge in the research community, the
FDA still allows companies to use it when processing foods
we ingest.

The FDA and the white flour industry could counter-argue
that, if alloxan were to cause diabetes, a higher proportion
of Americans would be diabetic. After all, more consumers
consume white flour on a regular basis than are actually
diabetic. This point is valid, but it does not disprove the
alloxan-diabetes connection. While alloxan is one cause of
adult-onset type 2 diabetes, it is of course not the only
cause. As the Textbook of Natural Medicine states, "current
theory suggests an hereditary beta-cell predisposition to
injury coupled with some defect in tissue regeneration
capacity" may be a key cause. For alloxan to cause injury to
an individual's beta cells, the individual must have the
genetic susceptibility to injury. This is similar to the
connection between high-cholesterol foods and heart disease.
Eating high-cholesterol foods causes heart disease,
especially in people who have family histories of heart
disease. The link between alloxan and diabetes is as clear
and solid as the link between cholesterol and heart disease.
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JCT: Isn't it incredible how many things around us are
government-authorized poisons: fluoride, mercury,
cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, while banning the one healthy
substance!!!



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