Now let's see also how to get there starting from beet or from sugar cane to the final product.

Refined white sugar

The sugary juice coming from the first phase of beet or sugar cane processing undergoes complex industrial transformations:

first it is purified with lime milk which causes the loss and destruction of organic substances, proteins, enzymes and calcium salts;

then, to eliminate the excess lime, the sugary juice is treated with carbon dioxide.

The product therefore still undergoes a treatment with sulphurous acid to eliminate the dark color. Subsequently it is subjected to cooking, cooling, crystallization and centrifugation. Either way it comes to the raw sugar.

From here we move on to the second phase of processing: the sugar is filtered and bleached with animal charcoal and then, to eliminate the last yellowish reflections, it is colored with the ultramarine blue dye or with the blue idantrene (coming from the tar and therefore carcinogenic). The final product is a white crystalline substance that has nothing to do with the rich starting sugary juice.

Raw cane sugar

it is obtained directly from the juice extracted from crushed barrels through artisanal operations (therefore without the use of chemical substances).

Furthermore, it often comes from organic or integrated crops (if so, the wording should be present on the label), has a grainy or powdery consistency, never crystalline.

Finally we try to understand what happens to our body when we ingest refined sugar .

In order to be assimilated and digested, white sugar steals from our body vitamins and mineral salts, initially present and then eliminated through refining (in particular calcium and chromium), to reconstitute at least in part that harmony of elements destroyed by refining .

What causes the toxic white sugar in the intestine?

It causes fermentative processes with production of sodium and abdominal tension and alteration of the bacterial flora with all the consequences that this entails (colitis, constipation, diarrhea, formation and absorption of toxic substances, etc.).

In this regard you will certainly have noticed the annoying sense of swelling and heaviness that is felt after eating elaborate sweets, rich in sugar.

This is caused by the rapid and violent absorption of blood sugar which causes the so-called blood sugar to rise .

Faced with this sudden ascent, the pancreas responds by injecting insulin into the blood and this causes a sharp drop in the glycemic rate called the "hypoglycemic crisis" characterized by a state of malaise, sweating, irritability, aggression, weakness, the need to eat to feel again up in tone.

The consequence of this falling sugar is the release into the body, by the body, of other hormones designed to make the blood sugar rise, including the adrenaline that is the hormone of aggression, defense, tension.

We can well understand how these continuous hormonal "stresses" with their psychophysical implications determine a depletion of energy with the weakening of the whole organism.

This has been widely verified by studies conducted in the United States where violence and aggression in children, also related to the type of diet and refined foods and sugars, have created alarm and concern for all the social consequences they determine.

White sugar has a great influence both on the nervous system and on the metabolism, creating first stimulation then depression with consequent states of irritability, false euphoria, the need to take other sugar, etc. In reality, a true form of dependence is created, as happens with drugs or nicotine.

In the long run one of the most affected systems is the immune system, since the exhaustion of forces and energies translates into a lower capacity to respond to external aggressions and the tendency to get sick. When we eat 50 gr. of white sugar, the phagocytic capacity of white blood cells is reduced by 76% and this decrease in the defense system lasts about 7 hours.

The serious diseases that afflict humanity today (cancer, AIDS, sclerosis, autoimmune diseases, etc.) arise precisely from an immune weakening of which white sugar and refined nutrition are jointly responsible.

The absence of vitamin and protein substrates, caused by the activity of refining, imposes to our organism the need to consume its own for the splitting of sugar; this goes to create ac molecules. Pyruvic in abundance, which acidify the blood; forced acidification creates a "buffer" condition, for which the body begins to subtract calcium from the main sources such as teeth and bones, in an attempt to block the excessive acid metabolism, so that the main substrate of the bones and teeth, condemning it to osteoporosis. It has been widely verified that populations not reached by the so-called "white civilization" are not subject to caries or other tooth diseases. With the arrival of whites and their refined food products (sugar, sweets, alcohol, bread), the aborigines of Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, the Indios of Peru and the Amazon, the Red Americans of North America etc. they too began to be subjected to the same diseases as whites and to fill the dental and medical offices of their "civilizers"; the incidence of caries, which previously was a disease completely unknown to them, has come to affect up to 100% of the individuals of these populations.

The damages of the "exquisite white poison" are many others still and at all levels: for example circulatory (with the increase of cholesterol and damage to the arteries), hepatic, pancreatic (since the organ that manages the sugars is the pancreas ), weight (with weight gain and obesity), cutaneous.

Almost all of these diseases could be prevented by replacing the white sugar with the virgin whole cane or with honey, always virgin whole.

As a substitute for refined white sugar, fructose, honey, molasses and "real" cane sugar can be used. I say true because someone has come to lightly toast the white sugar in order to give it a browning that makes it look like brown sugar. It must also be considered that the two tablespoons of sugar in coffee do not hurt anyone; sugar becomes dangerous when it is eaten a lot, for example taking a dessert after eating and so on. Therefore we should first try to reduce their consumption. Sugar consumption, as explained above, has been increasing dramatically in recent decades. This, unfortunately, caused the habit of sweet taste, a habit as harmful as that of smoke or spirits.