FROM LAST TIME

• WHO TRIED SPICES AS MEDICINES?

• BOUGHT FRANKINCENSE?

• TRIED CARAWAY FOR MENSTRUAL CRAMP MANAGEMENT?

• INCREASED PEPPER INTAKE IN ADDRESS CANCER AND BLOOD

PRESSURE ISSUES?

• TOLD THOSE THEY LOVE NOT TO HAVE LAVENDER (IVORY SOAPS, ETC)

IN THE HOUSE IF THEY HAVE YOUNG BOYS?

• RUBBED ONIONS ON THEIR HEAD TO ADDRESS HAIR LOSS ISSUES?

• DID ANY RESEARCH WHATSOEVER AFTER CLASS….

F/U ON SOME QUESTIONS

• GUAR GUM

• A THICKENER, MADE FROM GROUND

SEEDS

• NATURAL, I.E., NOT CHEMICAL.

• USED OFTEN IN GLUTEN FREE FOODS

• HAS SOME HEALTH BENEFITS:

REGULARITY, CHOLESTEROL CONTROL,

DIABETES MANAGEMENT

• XANTHAM GUM

• POLYSACCARIDE (A COMPONENT OF

SUGAR)

• IT IS SECRETED BY A BACTERIA

(XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIC)

• IT IS ALSO A THICKENER, STABLE AT A

WIDE RANGE OF TEMPERATURES AND PH.

• ALSO USED IN GLUTEN FREE BAKING

NOTES FOR THE DAY

• ALWAYS WALK THROUGH LIFE AS IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO LEARN AND YOU WILL

• ALWAYS WALK THROUGH LIFE AS IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO CHANGE AND YOU WILL

SUGAR• QANDI

• $32B INDUSTRY

• THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUGAR AND SUGAR FREE

• 77 LBS A YEAR

• SUBJECT OF SOCIAL COMMENTARY THEMED AROUND FAIRNESS

• THE BRAIN AND SUGAR

WHAT GOVERNS CARB PROCESSING?

It is Insulin, and it behaves like the Tasmanian Devil!

GLYCOGEN/INSULIN CYCLE

HIDDEN WORDS FOR SUGAR

• ALL THE “OSE” MALTOSE, LACTOSE, GLUCOSE, FRUCTOSE

• ALL THE “ITOL” SORBITOL, XYLITOL, MALITOL

• MALTODEXTRIN, MANNITOL, TURBINADO, CANE SUGAR

• SYRUP, CORN SYRUP, HFCS

• BROWN SUGAR, WHITE SUGAR

WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

AFTER TODAY

• INFORMATION VS. TRANSFORMATION

• PUBLICLY COMMIT TO A CHANGE

REFERENCES• SIDNEY MINTZ. SWEETNESS AND POWER. “SUGAR FOLLOWS THE KORAN.”

• NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, AUGUST 2013