Tcomeau
Mon, Aug-16-04, 19:18
http://www.worldwidehealthcenter.net/articles-11.html
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SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTH In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were
rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such confinement
began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the
transition from apothecary's prescription to candymaker's
confection. "The great confinement of the insane", as one
historian calls it, began in the late 17th century, after
sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a
pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than
two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in
London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs
and symptoms of the "sugar blues".
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal
physical symptoms and the physicians were professionally
bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, but
mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue,
debauchery, parental displeasure-any one problem was
sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up
in the first Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be
incarcerated was a complaint from parents, relatives or the
omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with their babies,
pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior
citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving
lunatics-anyone wanted off the streets and out of sight was
put away. The mental hospital succeeded witch-hunting and
heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane method of
social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty
work of street sweeping in return for royal favours.
Initially, when the General Hospital was established in Paris
by royal decree, one per cent of the city's population was
locked up. From that time until the 20 century, as the
consumption of sugar went up and up-especially in the
cities-so did the number of people who were put away in the
General Hospital. Three hundred years later, the "emotionally
disturbed" can be turned into walking automatons, their brains
controlled with psychoactive drugs.
Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr Abram
Hoffer, Dr Allan Cott, Dr A. Cherkin as well as Dr Linus
Pauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that
emotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of the
obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of
sugar dependency.
In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr Pauling writes: "The
functioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more
sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions than
the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that
mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal
reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and
diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential
substances... Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is
undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often
be far from the best."
In Megavitamin B3 Therapy for Schizophrenia, Dr Abram Hoffer
notes: "Patients are also advised to follow a good nutritional
program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-rich foods."
Clinical research with hyperactive and psychotic children, as
well as those with brain injuries and learning disabilities,
has shown: "An abnormally high family history of
diabetes-that is, parents and grandparents who cannot handle
sugar; an abnormally high incidence of low blood glucose, or
functional hypoglycemia in the children themselves, which
indicates that their systems cannot handle sugar; dependence
on a high level of sugar in the diets of the very children
who cannot handle it.
"Inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as
schizophrenic reveals the diet of their choice is rich in
sweets, candy, cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods
prepared with sugar. These foods, which stimulate the
adrenals, should be eliminated or severely restricted."
SUGAR AND THE ADRENALS! In the 1940s, Dr John Tintera
rediscovered the vital importance of the endocrine system,
especially the adrenal glands, in "pathological mentation" -
or "brain boggling". In 200 cases under treatment for
hypoadrenocorticism (the lack of adequate adrenal cortical
hormone production or imbalance among these hormones), he
discovered that the chief complaints of his patients were
often similar to those found in persons whose systems were
unable to handle sugar: fatigue, nervousness, depression,
apprehension, craving for sweets, inability to handle
alcohol, inability to concentrate, allergies, low blood
pressure. Sugar blues!
Dr Tintera finally insisted that all his patients submit to a
four-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out whether or
not they could handle sugar. The results were so startling
that the laboratories double-checked their techniques, then
apologised for what they believed to be incorrect readings.
What mystified them was the low, flat curves derived from
disturbed, early adolescents. This laboratory procedure had
been previously carried out only for patients with physical
findings presumptive of diabetes.
A glucose tolerance test at any of these periods could
alert parents and physicians and could save innumerable
hours and small fortunes spent in looking into the child's
psyche and home environment for maladjustments of
questionable significance in the emotional development of
the average child.
The negativism, hyperactivity and obstinate resentment of
discipline are absolute indications for at least the minimum
laboratory tests: urinalysis, complete blood count, PBI
determination, and the five-hour glucose tolerance test. A GTT
can be performed on a young child by the micro-method without
undue trauma to the patient. As a matter of fact, I have been
urging that these four tests be routine for all patients, even
before a history or physical examination is undertaken.
In almost all discussions on drug addiction, alcoholism and
schizophrenia, it is claimed that there is no definite
constitutional type that falls prey to these afflictions.
Almost universally, the statement is made that all of these
individuals are emotionally immature. It has long been our
goal to persuade every physician, whether oriented toward
psychiatry, genetics or physiology, to recognise that one type
of endocrine individual is involved in the majority of these
cases: the hypoadrenocortic.
Tintera published several epochal medical papers. Over and
over, he emphasised that improvement, alleviation,
palliation or cure was "dependent upon the restoration of
the normal function of the total organism". His first
prescribed item of treatment was diet. Over and over again,
he said that "the importance of diet cannot be
overemphasised". He laid out a sweeping permanent injunction
against sugar in all forms and guises.
While Egas Moniz of Portugal was receiving a Nobel Prize for
devising the lobotomy operation for the treatment of
schizophrenia, Tintera's reward was to be harassment and
hounding by the pundits of organised medicine. While
Tintera's sweeping implication of sugar as a cause of what
was called "schizophrenia" could be confined to medical
journals, he was let alone, ignored. He could be tolerated-if
he stayed in his assigned territory, endocrinology. Even when
he suggested that alcoholism was related to adrenals that had
been whipped by sugar abuse, they let him alone; because the
medicos had decided there was nothing in alcoholism for them
except aggravation, they were satisfied to abandon it to
Alcoholics Anonymous. However, when Tintera dared to suggest
in a magazine of general circulation that "it is ridiculous
to talk of kinds of allergies when there is only one kind,
which is adrenal glands impaired...by sugar", he could no
longer be ignored.
The allergists had a great racket going for themselves.
Allergic souls had been entertaining each other for years with
tall tales of exotic allergies-everything from horse feathers
to lobster tails. Along comes someone who says none of this
matters: take them off sugar, and keep them off it.
Perhaps Tintera's untimely death in 1969 at the age of
fifty-seven made it easier for the medical profession to
accept discoveries that had once seemed as far out as the
simple oriental medical thesis of genetics and diet, yin and
yang. Today, doctors all over the world are repeating what
Tintera announced years ago: nobody, but nobody, should ever
be allowed to begin what is called "psychiatric treatment",
anyplace, anywhere, unless and until they have had a glucose
tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar.
So-called preventive medicine goes further and suggests that
since we only think we can handle sugar because we initially
have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and
signals that they're worn out? Take the load off now by
eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that
soda pop you have in your hand.
The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for
medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have
been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession,
locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness,
psychiatrised for psychosis, lobotomised for schizophrenia.
How many patients would have listened if the local healer had
told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues?
*******
Interesting stuff.
TC
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SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTH In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were
rarely locked up for going off their rocker. Such confinement
began in the Age of Enlightenment, after sugar made the
transition from apothecary's prescription to candymaker's
confection. "The great confinement of the insane", as one
historian calls it, began in the late 17th century, after
sugar consumption in Britain had zoomed in 200 years from a
pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and there, to more than
two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians in
London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs
and symptoms of the "sugar blues".
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal
physical symptoms and the physicians were professionally
bewildered, patients were no longer pronounced bewitched, but
mad, insane, emotionally disturbed. Laziness, fatigue,
debauchery, parental displeasure-any one problem was
sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up
in the first Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be
incarcerated was a complaint from parents, relatives or the
omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with their babies,
pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior
citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving
lunatics-anyone wanted off the streets and out of sight was
put away. The mental hospital succeeded witch-hunting and
heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane method of
social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty
work of street sweeping in return for royal favours.
Initially, when the General Hospital was established in Paris
by royal decree, one per cent of the city's population was
locked up. From that time until the 20 century, as the
consumption of sugar went up and up-especially in the
cities-so did the number of people who were put away in the
General Hospital. Three hundred years later, the "emotionally
disturbed" can be turned into walking automatons, their brains
controlled with psychoactive drugs.
Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr Abram
Hoffer, Dr Allan Cott, Dr A. Cherkin as well as Dr Linus
Pauling, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that
emotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of the
obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of
sugar dependency.
In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr Pauling writes: "The
functioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more
sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions than
the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that
mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal
reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and
diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential
substances... Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is
undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often
be far from the best."
In Megavitamin B3 Therapy for Schizophrenia, Dr Abram Hoffer
notes: "Patients are also advised to follow a good nutritional
program with restriction of sucrose and sucrose-rich foods."
Clinical research with hyperactive and psychotic children, as
well as those with brain injuries and learning disabilities,
has shown: "An abnormally high family history of
diabetes-that is, parents and grandparents who cannot handle
sugar; an abnormally high incidence of low blood glucose, or
functional hypoglycemia in the children themselves, which
indicates that their systems cannot handle sugar; dependence
on a high level of sugar in the diets of the very children
who cannot handle it.
"Inquiry into the dietary history of patients diagnosed as
schizophrenic reveals the diet of their choice is rich in
sweets, candy, cakes, coffee, caffeinated beverages, and foods
prepared with sugar. These foods, which stimulate the
adrenals, should be eliminated or severely restricted."
SUGAR AND THE ADRENALS! In the 1940s, Dr John Tintera
rediscovered the vital importance of the endocrine system,
especially the adrenal glands, in "pathological mentation" -
or "brain boggling". In 200 cases under treatment for
hypoadrenocorticism (the lack of adequate adrenal cortical
hormone production or imbalance among these hormones), he
discovered that the chief complaints of his patients were
often similar to those found in persons whose systems were
unable to handle sugar: fatigue, nervousness, depression,
apprehension, craving for sweets, inability to handle
alcohol, inability to concentrate, allergies, low blood
pressure. Sugar blues!
Dr Tintera finally insisted that all his patients submit to a
four-hour glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out whether or
not they could handle sugar. The results were so startling
that the laboratories double-checked their techniques, then
apologised for what they believed to be incorrect readings.
What mystified them was the low, flat curves derived from
disturbed, early adolescents. This laboratory procedure had
been previously carried out only for patients with physical
findings presumptive of diabetes.
A glucose tolerance test at any of these periods could
alert parents and physicians and could save innumerable
hours and small fortunes spent in looking into the child's
psyche and home environment for maladjustments of
questionable significance in the emotional development of
the average child.
The negativism, hyperactivity and obstinate resentment of
discipline are absolute indications for at least the minimum
laboratory tests: urinalysis, complete blood count, PBI
determination, and the five-hour glucose tolerance test. A GTT
can be performed on a young child by the micro-method without
undue trauma to the patient. As a matter of fact, I have been
urging that these four tests be routine for all patients, even
before a history or physical examination is undertaken.
In almost all discussions on drug addiction, alcoholism and
schizophrenia, it is claimed that there is no definite
constitutional type that falls prey to these afflictions.
Almost universally, the statement is made that all of these
individuals are emotionally immature. It has long been our
goal to persuade every physician, whether oriented toward
psychiatry, genetics or physiology, to recognise that one type
of endocrine individual is involved in the majority of these
cases: the hypoadrenocortic.
Tintera published several epochal medical papers. Over and
over, he emphasised that improvement, alleviation,
palliation or cure was "dependent upon the restoration of
the normal function of the total organism". His first
prescribed item of treatment was diet. Over and over again,
he said that "the importance of diet cannot be
overemphasised". He laid out a sweeping permanent injunction
against sugar in all forms and guises.
While Egas Moniz of Portugal was receiving a Nobel Prize for
devising the lobotomy operation for the treatment of
schizophrenia, Tintera's reward was to be harassment and
hounding by the pundits of organised medicine. While
Tintera's sweeping implication of sugar as a cause of what
was called "schizophrenia" could be confined to medical
journals, he was let alone, ignored. He could be tolerated-if
he stayed in his assigned territory, endocrinology. Even when
he suggested that alcoholism was related to adrenals that had
been whipped by sugar abuse, they let him alone; because the
medicos had decided there was nothing in alcoholism for them
except aggravation, they were satisfied to abandon it to
Alcoholics Anonymous. However, when Tintera dared to suggest
in a magazine of general circulation that "it is ridiculous
to talk of kinds of allergies when there is only one kind,
which is adrenal glands impaired...by sugar", he could no
longer be ignored.
The allergists had a great racket going for themselves.
Allergic souls had been entertaining each other for years with
tall tales of exotic allergies-everything from horse feathers
to lobster tails. Along comes someone who says none of this
matters: take them off sugar, and keep them off it.
Perhaps Tintera's untimely death in 1969 at the age of
fifty-seven made it easier for the medical profession to
accept discoveries that had once seemed as far out as the
simple oriental medical thesis of genetics and diet, yin and
yang. Today, doctors all over the world are repeating what
Tintera announced years ago: nobody, but nobody, should ever
be allowed to begin what is called "psychiatric treatment",
anyplace, anywhere, unless and until they have had a glucose
tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar.
So-called preventive medicine goes further and suggests that
since we only think we can handle sugar because we initially
have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and
signals that they're worn out? Take the load off now by
eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that
soda pop you have in your hand.
The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for
medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have
been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession,
locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness,
psychiatrised for psychosis, lobotomised for schizophrenia.
How many patients would have listened if the local healer had
told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues?
*******
Interesting stuff.
TC