Sugar & Spice & Everything 'Nice?'
by Mycenay
Centuries before people’s minds were being influenced and altered by mainstream media through television and radio, refined foods and sugar began doing their number on the human mind and body. One of the many positive results of observing National TV Turn Off Week might just be that you consume less of the non-food items cleverly and enticingly advertised ad nauseum on television commercials— non-food items that are actually harming and killing, not nourishing, you.
The many food additives, "enhancers," and preservatives, such as aspartame, BHT, saccharin, MSG, and several forms of refined sugars loaded into everything (even common table salt!) are "bad for you" and "have been proven to cause cancer in laboratory animals." I realize this information is not news to most people. So why do we still eat sugar? BECAUSE IT’S ADDICTIVE!!! That’s why the beaucoup bucks spent on those really cool, hip commercials. Get it?! Big Daddy Multimillion Dollar Corporation doesn’t care about us and our children, only about "his" millions. And guess what?! "He" and "his family" probably eat all organic! They can afford it.
The adulteration of natural whole foods by refinement or adding sugar has been happening for centuries. In his book, Sugar Blues, William Dufty writes that in the early 1200s in England, strict punishment was doled out for the sophistication—the process of making impure or weak; the adulteration—of bread, meat, beer, and wine. In 1482, a wine sophisticator in Germany sentenced to drink six quarts of his own wine died half way through the carrying out of his sentence. In 1816 in Britain an act was passed outlawing brewers to even possess sugar or molasses.
Often though, church and state failed to protect the people. The Catholic Church in the fourteenth century declared that "if a woman dare to cure [for example, giving someone a natural herbal potion to counterbalance the overdose of sugar in the body along with some strong advice to stop eating the stuff] without having studied, she is a witch and must die.” Natural healers who advised against eating sugar and drinking rum were called “sorceresses” and became enemies of the church and state, both of which profited greatly in the sugar enterprise.
During the industrial age in Europe and America, mills and grain-refining machines were increasingly "perfected" until the grain was able to be stripped of virtually everything except calories. As these refining machines were suddenly introduced to the East and other parts of the world where modernization was fashionable, a disease called beriberi (Senegalese for "weakness") broke out. When people who relied on these grains for their main staple began eating the new sophisticated, refined grains of the West, they became malnourished.
The answer to the malnourishment? Vitamins, which were developed out of the very vital substances in unpolished grains that are stripped out in the refining process! Now how’s that for marketing genius?! Refine and "Westernize" the grain so it can be sold at a higher price, then make vitamins out of the good stuff taken out of the grain and sell them to the people being malnourished by the refined grain from which the natural vitamins were removed! Is it just me or is this madness?
It is madness, a madness perpetuated by one motive—greed. And today this insanity is more out of control than ever. Start reading your food labels, notice how sugar in its many forms—dextrose, barley malt, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, etc.—has been added into virtually everything: crackers, ketchup, savory seasonings, breads, meats, "health" bars, table salt, chips, juice, salsa, pizza sauce; the list goes on. And that’s just the sugar, not to mention the long lists of twenty-six-letter words (chemicals) you can’t even pronounce.
Why has this happened to our food supply? In a nutshell, there is evil motivated by selfishness and greed in the world. We must recognize this and not buy (literally!) into the corruption. Only through recognizing and honoring that which is true and pure, physically and spiritually, can we build a sustainable, creative, nurturing world where all people can thrive and fulfill their destinies in God. This sustainable world is not a fantasy or a dream; it is the destiny of our earth, and our next choice either advances or slows that destiny’s actualization. Choose wisely!
“On a world where love is the force energy of individuals, there is no need for capital or currency of any kind. The uniqueness of each individual is clearly seen by all, and talents and energies are given for the common good of their local family, which is an extended family of both cosmic and native origin, incorporating diverse careers of artistic, scientific and philosophic natures. The foundation of happiness is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Beyond all else, the spirituality of each individual soul is recognized, and the most powerful souls on these worlds of light and life are those of the highest love and spiritual ascension.” (The Cosmic Family, Volume I; Paper 211)