BILL: On today's It Is Written
program, another instalment in
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our Live Healthy series.
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Today we ask the question:
"Is sugar really toxic?
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" with our friend, Dr. Fereira.
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It Is Written begins right now.
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Bill: Well, let me welcome all
of our viewers to this week's It
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Is Written program.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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Let me turn to my
special guest, Dr. Fereira.
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Welcome, Doctor.
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DOCTOR: Thank
you very much, Bill.
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It's a pleasure to be here.
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BILL: You know, Doctor, in this
Live Healthy series, we've tried
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over the years to give folks
some very practical advice and
ways. lifestyle changes that
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they can make to live life and
live it more abundantly, because
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we believe that that is what is
God's desire for each one of his
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children. And occasionally, we
come across some articles or
some studies that seem to
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cause quite a stir.
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DOCTOR: That's right, yes.
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BILL: And this is one of them
right here about sugar being
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toxic. Now, before we get to
that, give us a very quick
biography of who you are
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for the benefit of viewers that
may be tuning in for the very
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first time and haven't
seen you on a program before.
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Tell us a little
bit about who you are.
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DOCTOR: Well, I'm
Portuguese by descent.
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I was born in Angola in Africa
and studied medicine in South
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Africa and practiced in the U.K.
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and the U.S.
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And now, for the past few years,
we've been in Portugal where
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we're working a lot in
preventative medicine, setting
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up a centre where we can help
people change their lifestyle.
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And so we get involved in health
education, not just here, but
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throughout Europe.
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It keeps us
busy, but we love it.
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BILL: Yes.
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Well, I know that you're
extremely busy and we appreciate
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you joining us. One of the
things I really appreciate about
you is that you tend to
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speak from facts and
experience and not speculation.
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So when I came across this
article. there are a number of
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articles written about the
potential toxicity of sugar.
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DOCTOR: That's right, yes.
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BILL: You know, I fired
it off to you right away.
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DOCTOR: Immediately.
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BILL: Yeah, 'cause I
wanted your opinion on this.
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Let me just share
with you this one.
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There's a number of them.
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Just from the one I
have here in front of me.
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It says: "New research coming
out of some of America's most
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respected institutions is
starting to find that sugar is a
toxin and could be a
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driving force behind some of
the country's leading killers,
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including heart disease.
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" And then later on here in the
article, it goes on to say that
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Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian,
associate professor of medicine
and epidemiology at Harvard,
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told the magazine that
anti-sugar crusaders are mostly
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concerned with fructose.
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Fructose specifically, not sugar
in general, activates DNL in the
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liver more directly than any
other sugars and carbohydrates.
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DNL, he says, is simply the
process by which our body turns
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carbs into fat. And with
fructose, like alcohol and
unlike other sugars, this occurs
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in the liver.
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This is part of the reason why
people make the argument that
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sugar is toxic.
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What's your opinion on that?
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DOCTOR: That's amazing.
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Well, you know, let's go back
and try and see the context of
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all this. You know, people
were born with taste buds.
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And we've got specific
taste buds for sweet things.
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So it's natural; it's there.
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And it's a very pleasant thing
to eat something sweet, you
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know. I know my son has never
really liked cakes and things
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like that since he was a
little boy, a baby, really.
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But most of us, you know, we've
got a tendency to like these
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sweet things. It's
almost like a comfort.
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And it's normal.
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We were made that way.
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So where do you get
these sweet flavours?
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Well, in nature, you get them.
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For example, you eat fruit.
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And fruit has
fructose in small amounts.
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And you don't need a lot of
fructose to have the sweetness.
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And then you've got
sugarcane, for example.
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Sugarcane is
what we call sucrose.
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And I don't know, I remember
as a little boy in Africa, you
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know, just
chewing the sugarcane.
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And it's lovely.
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And you start getting fussy, you
know, which ones are good and
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which ones are not good.
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Okay.
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So we were born to enjoy that.
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But even sugarcane, there's
so much water in it, that the
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amount that you take of
that pure sugar is small.
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Now, with industrialization,
people found out that if they
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dry the sugarcane and the syrup
and make it into crystals, it's
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still very natural.
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You can see, it'd be
a very natural process.
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You get first the brown
sugar, then molasses, and so on.
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So you've got from sugarcane
and from beets, for example,
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beetroot, you get this sugar
which is essentially sucrose.
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And what is sucrose?
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Sucrose is. give me your cup.
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Okay.
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Sucrose is a sugar that is
a molecule that has two pure
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sugars or simple sugars.
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One is fructose; the
other one is glucose.
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The two together,
bound together, make sucrose.
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Now, that is the sugar that
is present in sugarcane; it's
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present in beetroot.
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And what happens is that the
body, when we eat things with
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that, which is already. if you
eat the pure sucrose, it's
already concentrated.
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You know, it's crystallized, and
so it's already concentrated.
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So you can have much more sugar
per tablespoon than if you took
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the syrup of corn
sugar. sorry, sugarcane.
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So what happens, then, you take
that and put it in your mouth.
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In the mouth. see, your body
cannot use the two together.
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It has to separate them.
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In the mouth, there are scissors
which are enzymes that start
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dividing them. So you get
fructose and you get glucose.
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Sucrose is the combination
of fructose and glucose.
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But now that. and especially
when people eat too fast, too
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quickly, that only
happens a little bit.
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That sucrose has to travel down
to your stomach and then to your
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intestine. And there, again,
the ones that were not separated
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before, they are separated.
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So you get the same percentage
of fructose as you get of
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glucose. And remember, we're
talking about sucrose, which is
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from sugarcane and beetroot.
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Then where do they go?
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Well, fructose enters the body.
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So it's inside the gut now.
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But it has to go to the blood
and it has to go to the organs.
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So it enters the
body a certain way.
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It goes through one door.
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Glucose, which is the main
sugar, for example, for the
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body's metabolism. For example,
my brain only uses glucose as
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its own fuel. So glucose enters
the blood through another door.
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So they separate.
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But it's important to know
that when they get into the gut,
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they're together, and
then they have to be separated.
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Then they go.
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The fructose goes. it's
metabolized essentially in the
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liver, where the glucose goes
to. you know, it can be
metabolized by different
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organs.
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And so if there is an excess.
let's say you take too much
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sucrose, which happens.
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I mean, just in the U.S., people
take about 40 kilograms. 40
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kilograms of sugar.
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One person, 40
kilograms of sugar per year.
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I mean, that's a huge bag.
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BILL: That's almost
100 pounds, I think.
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DOCTOR: Yeah, that's right, yes.
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That's almost 100
pounds of sugar a year.
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That is an amazing amount.
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If you think of how much fruit
you would need to eat to get 40
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kilograms of sugar, it's
bags and bags and crates.
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It's just amazing.
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And that's one person.
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Now, of course, that
has an effect in the body.
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That sugar cannot all
be used, so it's stored.
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It's
metabolized and it's stored.
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Now, what happens with fructose,
it goes a certain way and it's
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mainly metabolized in the liver
and it can have certain effects.
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And sucrose, the same thing.
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Now, one of the reasons for the
huge obesity crisis. you know,
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it's really epidemic. is that
people are taking too much of
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that. It doesn't matter if it
is. and we'll talk about that,
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you know. the modified sugars
or if it's from sugarcane.
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The reality is that people
are taking too much sugar.
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BILL: Too much of
it, yeah, in any form.
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DOCTOR: And so
it's being stored.
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And you know, by having a lot of
weight, and it's stored in fat
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mostly because the sugar, when
it's to be stored in the
muscles, in the fat cells,
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it has to be
transformed into fat.
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So it's stored.
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And that is associated
with heart disease, with cancer,
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diabetes, and so on.
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So it's just amazing.
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This is just the
background for the sugar story.
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BILL: Wow, okay.
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So now, they make reference here
to the idea that most experts
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seem to be more concerned
about fructose specifically.
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I'm assuming they are not
referring to fructose in fruit.
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DOCTOR: No, no.
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See, you need to eat a lot of
fruit to have a lot of fructose,
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okay? So what are
they talking about?
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Okay.
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BILL: Where are we
getting all of this?
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DOCTOR: All right.
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Now, this is. it's fascinating,
you know, how trends in human
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nutrition
develop over the years.
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If you look at the labels
of most of your products today.
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Go and take a cereal or a cake
or a soft drink, one of these
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sodas. Most of them, you read
that it contains high-fructose
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corn syrup. BILL: Yes.
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DOCTOR:Now, it depends on where
you are, how it's labelled.
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In the U.S., it's
high-fructose corn syrup.
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In Canada, it could
be just fructose/glucose.
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Now, where does this come from?
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The word "corn" says it all.
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Okay, now, when you look
at corn. when you look at
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sugarcane. I was telling
you, you know, I used to eat the
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sugarcane. It's sweet.
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It's extremely sweet.
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If you take fruit, it's sweet.
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Corn, if you take sweet corn,
it's a little bit sweet because
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it has some of the molecules
already that are going to give
you that sweetness.
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But most of it is not sweet.
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Where does that high-fructose
corn syrup come from?
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Well, corn has starch.
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And starch. imagine if you had
many mugs here, you know, many
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of these cups here.
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Starch is a
collection of hundreds of them.
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Each one of them has glucose
in it and also some fructose.
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BILL: Okay, got it.
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DOCTOR: So what they do is,
okay, they looked. and this is
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an economical war and it's got
things in between that we're not
going to deal with.
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But they looked at these and
they said, "We've got a lot of
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corn in our countries.
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How can we make
sugar out of this?
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" So they break before they
give. I mean, you don't want to
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take corn as a source of sugar.
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But they've separated
all of this enzymatically,
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industrially, they separated all
the starch from the corn and
they made the high-fructose
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corn syrup.
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And then you've got
different percentages.
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You know, you've got
high-fructose corn syrup, which
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is 90% fructose; you've got
others which are 70% fructose.
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You've got 55% fructose.
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And it depends on what you want
to use it for which one you're
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going to use. But it's a
high-fructose corn syrup.
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Remember, it's
not a natural process.
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It has to be prepared before.
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And when you take it, you're
already taking the fructose
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separated. It's not together.
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BILL: Without the glucose.
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DOCTOR: Without the glucose.
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You're taking it separate, okay?
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All right, in higher amounts.
BILL: That's already unnatural
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for our body.
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DOCTOR: Yes.
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So for you to take that amount
of fructose from fruit and
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natural sources, I
mean, it would be impossible.
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Now, I told you that about
40 kilos a year are taken by an
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average person in the U.S.
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You know how much of that is
from high-fructose corn syrup?
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It's close to about 40%.
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It's about 17, 18 kilos.
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That's 2008.
BILL: Oh my goodness.
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So nearly half of all the sugar
intake is. DOCTOR: It comes from
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high-fructose corn syrup.
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Plus the other sugar that you
take already has 50% fructose.
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So you see, we've got a
very unnatural situation.
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You've got high
amounts of fructose.
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You know, fructose is healthy,
but in appropriate amounts
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coming into the body.
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And it's a system that is
not dependent on insulin to come
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into the cells. It's different
from the one from glucose going
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into the body. And it's
something that is directly
affecting the liver.
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The glucose, not so
much, but the fructose is.
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So that is why there have been
studies that have shown that
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this is potentially toxic
to the liver itself, you know.
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If you take too much of this.
there's at least one study that
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says that it could actually be
potentially toxic to the liver
and cause some liver
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damage, okay?
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It can cause. the liver
can become very fatty because
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fructose is stored
mainly in the liver.
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It can become very fatty.
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And we know today that. and
we've done a program on this
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before on diabetes, that the fat
in the liver is one of the most
important predictors
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of diabetes.
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So there's a direct correlation
between fat in the liver and
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diabetes, for example.
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And there have been fascinating
studies on this, because you
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know, it's not a normal
situation to eat so much
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fructose. So you
know, for example, obesity.
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Animals that are fed with
high-fructose corn syrup, they
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are more likely to become obese.
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BILL: Which makes sense, yeah.
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DOCTOR: So there's
a lot of controversy.
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And so you know, when people
look at that, at the label, and
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they look at high-fructose corn
syrup, there's a natural
tendency to feel, "Well,
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this is probably healthier,"
because they know that sugar is
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bad, so if you put there
"sugar", somebody would look at
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it as, "Oh,
sugar. I don't want that.
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" BILL: I don't want that, yeah.
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DOCTOR: "You
know, I don't want that.
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" They leave it aside.
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But high-fructose corn syrup,
most people have no idea that
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this is sugar.
It's a modified sugar.
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So they feel
happier and so they take it.
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BILL: Yeah, it's amazing that
once you become conscious of
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this and you begin to read the
labels, that you find this
high-fructose corn syrup
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in everything.
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DOCTOR: You know,
it's interesting, yeah.
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BILL: It's everywhere.
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DOCTOR: That's
right, it's everywhere.
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BILL: It's incredible.
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DOCTOR: And you know, it's
becoming sort of bad news, if
you look at that, and
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because of all this controversy
about the high-fructose corn
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syrup, you know, people are
starting to get informed and
starting to look at
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this high-fructose corn syrup,
you know, beginning not to trust
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this. "You know, I
hear so much about this.
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" But the thing is that there
is a move. there has been an
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application in the U.S.
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for that to be relabelled and it
just says "corn sugar" you know,
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or something
similar. BILL: Oh my goodness.
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DOCTOR: .so that people. but you
know, sugar from corn doesn't
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come in that form.
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Sugar from corn is different.
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To say that that is sugar
from corn, it's saying half the
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truth. And personally, I don't
think it is wise to go in that
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direction, but you know,
governments will decide whether
they will move in that direction
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or not.
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BILL: And really, our role
here is really to increase some
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awareness and have people.
DOCTOR:That's right, yes.
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BILL: .engage in that kind
of discussion and do some of the
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research and make the
decisions for themselves.
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Now, one other thing that seems
to be an area of some confusion.
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at least it is for me. is, then,
what would be potentially some
substitutes for. are
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there healthy or better
alternatives, for example, for
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someone that, you
know, wants to make a cake?
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Is there something
that they could add?
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I mean, we hear about things
like. I know a lot of the drinks
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have aspartame, stevia,
sometimes people talk about,
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honey. How do those come into
play in this whole sugar debate
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and discussion? DOCTOR: Well, I
think that the use of sugar in a
form that is as natural as
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possible in very small amounts.
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I would say it is. I can't say
it's safe, but it's much safer
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than taking it in the amounts
that people usually take.
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You know, let's
say, making a cake.
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Making a cake occasionally when
a person has a balanced diet,
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exercises, eats plenty of fruit,
vegetables, making a cake, you
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know, it's okay. It's not. that
is not what is going to cause
you to become obese or to
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develop heart disease or
whatever, you know, if you have
this balanced diet.
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What happens is that people are
just not making one cake; many
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times, they are eating not. you
know, they just go out and they
buy the cakes and eat it
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almost every day.
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But their diet is also
full of refined sugars.
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It's high on fat.
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And so you know, when
you ask, you know, what other
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substitutes. Okay, the
substitution that needs to take
place is in the mind, okay?
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BILL: Right, okay.
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[chuckle] Yeah,
that's a good point.
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DOCTOR: How am I going to live?
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How am I going to live?
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BILL: Right, okay.
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DOCTOR: Now, I can take. you
know, I can use two or three
tablespoons less or
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four tablespoons less of
sugar here in this cake and say,
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"Well, I'm going to use
aspartame," or "I'm going to use
this, I'm going to use that.
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" But come on, what
about all the others?
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Okay, so we need to
see this in perspective.
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BILL: I see your point, yeah.
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DOCTOR: Now, it is most likely
not needed for somebody to use a
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sugar substitute if a
person has a healthy lifestyle.
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The little sugar that can be put
into a cake. BILL: Reduce the
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amount of sugar, yeah.
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DOCTOR: You know, even the two
or three tablespoons for a big
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cake, that is not
going to be the problem.
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But you know, that's the ideal.
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Everybody to get a healthy
lifestyle so that you can have
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small amounts of sugar and
not have to worry about that.
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Now, if somebody really wants
to know, you know, what about
00:21:39.50\00:21:43.66
aspartame, what about stevia?
00:21:43.66\00:21:45.33
The reports out
there are confusing.
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But let's say, aspartame.
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Let's look at aspartame.
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Aspartame has been associated
with certain types of cancer.
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And you know, people have a
disease, for example,
phenylketonuria, which
00:21:59.96\00:22:06.76
fortunately are rare.
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You know, we don't have many
people with that disease; it's a
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rare disease.
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They cannot take aspartame.
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So aspartame is not a
clean substance, okay?
00:22:14.40\00:22:17.56
So there are
problems associated with that.
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Whether the cancer relationship
is really true or not, you know,
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in animals, yes.
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We know that in
animals they are.
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In humans, there have been
regulations in the past saying
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that if something has a
connection with cancer in
animals, humans shouldn't take
00:22:36.80\00:22:40.96
it. You know,
it's a big controversy.
00:22:40.96\00:22:44.13
But the point is that aspartame
is associated with some
00:22:44.13\00:22:49.16
problems. You take
saccharin, for example.
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Saccharin as well, that
used to be much more common.
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BILL: That was very
popular, yeah, in the past.
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DOCTOR: It's been
discovered over 100 years ago.
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It was very popular.
00:22:57.83\00:22:59.83
And then, you know, controversy
came also related to cancer and
00:22:59.83\00:23:02.80
other problems, you
know, headaches and so on.
00:23:02.80\00:23:07.53
There's a new kid on the block
now, you know, which is stevia.
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Stevia is a plant.
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And again, if you take the plant
and you put it there, probably
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there is no problem, but if you
take it in concentrated form,
packed in pills, in
00:23:20.26\00:23:23.53
powder, all of
that, we don't know.
00:23:23.53\00:23:26.10
It seems to be safe.
00:23:26.10\00:23:27.76
It seems to be
safe, but we don't know.
00:23:27.76\00:23:31.56
Maybe in five years' time,
we will be finding out And what
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happens is that many
people take a lot of it.
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They make cakes, you know.
00:23:35.73\00:23:38.33
You can go to any supermarket
and you find even the diabetic's
00:23:38.33\00:23:42.03
chocolate, you know, with these
substitutes, these sweeteners.
00:23:42.03\00:23:46.26
But I go back to the same thing.
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You know, in small
amounts, it may not do harm.
00:23:50.90\00:23:54.73
But the problem is that people
are taking it in huge amounts.
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.66
And they are not forfeiting.
00:23:57.66\00:24:01.10
Actually, they're not giving
up the other practices, that if
00:24:01.10\00:24:05.83
they were dealing with
that, they would have no problem
00:24:05.83\00:24:09.33
taking one or two
teaspoons of sugar.
00:24:09.33\00:24:11.16
BILL: You know, we've
just zipped through this.
00:24:11.16\00:24:13.63
I've got so many things.
00:24:13.63\00:24:16.06
But interestingly enough,
I worked with a lady that was
00:24:16.06\00:24:18.10
going through a lifestyle change
and she was giving up smoking
00:24:18.10\00:24:23.90
and sugar. And she said to me,
"Giving up tobacco was much
easier than giving up
00:24:23.90\00:24:29.43
sugar.
00:24:29.43\00:24:31.80
" DOCTOR: Because
sugar can be addictive.
00:24:31.80\00:24:37.40
Okay, not just
psychologically addictive.
00:24:37.40\00:24:41.16
Okay, you can become addicted
to something that it's a habit.
00:24:41.16\00:24:43.66
You know, it's
emotional and so on.
00:24:43.66\00:24:51.13
But sugar can be addictive,
chemically can be addictive.
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It has to do with dopamine.
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Dopamine is a substance that.
neurotransmitter in our brain
00:24:58.86\00:25:01.43
that gives us a
sense of pleasure.
00:25:01.43\00:25:04.40
It gives us a. it makes us more
capable of reasoning and so on.
00:25:04.40\00:25:12.90
And so these sugars and high
sugar content foods can become
00:25:12.90\00:25:18.26
very addictive. You know, let's
take chocolate, for example.
00:25:18.26\00:25:20.36
Chocolate has a
huge amount of sugar.
00:25:20.36\00:25:22.66
Let's take, for example, the
sodas, the cold drinks, or soft
00:25:22.66\00:25:27.26
drinks. Some of them can have up
to twelve, twelve teaspoons of
00:25:27.26\00:25:33.83
sugar in them in one drink.
00:25:33.83\00:25:36.36
Twelve.
00:25:36.36\00:25:38.76
Depends where you are in
the world, but up to twelve.
00:25:38.76\00:25:42.00
Who would ever think of taking
twelve teaspoons of sugar one
00:25:42.00\00:25:47.56
after the other and taking it?
00:25:47.56\00:25:49.83
And a lot of this now is
high-fructose corn syrup, okay?
00:25:49.83\00:25:53.56
It's not even sugarcane.
00:25:53.56\00:25:55.40
And you know,
Coca Cola, for example.
00:25:55.40\00:25:58.00
It makes brands. it's one brand,
but it makes different Coca Cola
00:25:58.00\00:26:03.83
depending where you
are in the world, okay?
00:26:03.83\00:26:06.86
In some countries, they use
sugarcane; in other countries,
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.63
they use
high-fructose corn syrup.
00:26:09.63\00:26:12.53
The fact is that there is too
much sugar in most of those
drinks, if not all.
00:26:12.53\00:26:18.13
And now there is a move to say,
"Okay, well, this is sugar-free.
00:26:18.13\00:26:22.46
We are going to substitute it
with one of the sweeteners like
00:26:22.46\00:26:28.50
aspartame, like sorbitol," which
is another sweet substance that
00:26:28.50\00:26:33.70
has nutritional value, but also
some problems associated to it
00:26:33.70\00:26:37.16
and so on. BILL: We could do
a whole series of programs on
00:26:37.16\00:26:40.23
this. DOCTOR: A
whole program, yes.
00:26:40.23\00:26:42.00
BILL: Thank you.
00:26:42.00\00:26:43.46
The bottom line is
the lifestyle change.
00:26:43.46\00:26:45.13
DOCTOR: Lifestyle,
lifestyle, lifestyle.
00:26:45.13\00:26:46.73
BILL: Thank you, Doctor.
00:26:46.73\00:26:47.93
Let's pray.
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Gracious loving heavenly father,
we thank you for your love.
00:26:49.80\00:26:52.53
Please help those that are in
the valley of decision for that
00:26:52.53\00:26:58.90
lifestyle change. Give them the
courage and the strength to make
the kind of changes that will
00:26:58.90\00:27:04.00
lead to living life and
living it more abundantly.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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DOCTOR: Amen.
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.10
BILL: You know, if you'd like
some more information about how
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you can make some of these
lifestyle changes, we'd like to
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It's a wonderful resource.
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Here is the information
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Bill: Well, Doctor,
that was another program.
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Thank you for being here.
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DOCTOR: You're welcome.
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Thank you.
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BILL: Thank you to our
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