Sugars increase our body's production of adrenaline which puts the body into a state of fight or flight stress, without anything to fight or flee from, except the consumption of sugar. This stress reaction increases the production of both cholesterol and cortisone. White sugar lacks the vitamins and minerals required for its own metabolism. To be metabolized, "empty" sugars must draw on our body's stores of these nutrients. The more sugars you eat, the more vitamins and minerals you need. It can leach B, C, D vitamins, and the following important minerals: calcium, phosphorous, iron, zinc, selenium, and chromium from body tissues. As these are depleted, our body becomes less able to carry out other functions that require minerals and vitamins to be present. Chromium is important here for it is thought to enhance the activity of the hormone insulin. And selenium is useful as a controlling agent for mercury, which attacks insulin and its binding sites. Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of their refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes. In the 1930s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, Dr Weston A. Price, travelled around the world and saw that people who live under so-called backward primitive conditions had excellent teeth and wonderful general health. They ate natural, unrefined food from their own locale. As soon as refined and sugared foods were imported, as a result of contact with "civilization", physical degeneration began in a way that was observable within a single generation. Medically, a poison can be any substance ingested which causes disease. White sugar and all the foods that use it can be considered poison, simply because they strip the body of crucial minerals and vitamins. This allows other vastly more toxic poisons to defeat the body's defences.

Problems develop for many people when they regularly eat foods high in refined carbohydrates, such as sugary snacks, pastas, and pizzas. Because these foods break down so rapidly in the gut, they stress the body's use of insulin to control glucose. Combine that situation with low levels of chromium, typical of the American diet, general malnutrition that is creeping into the general public like a permanent fog (nutritional values of food are decreasing rapidly) and a vast increase in chemical toxic stress and we have a recipe for a health disaster.

To find out the truth about diabetes and why it's a high speed express running out of control, we have to go further than any of the above explanations. We need to take out our microscopes and investigate what is happening on a biochemical level. We have to forget what everyone says and thinks and all the propaganda we receive from the medical establishment for in this disease, like many others that are going unsolved, direct causes are not being established and thus cures have not been forthcoming. It is no longer easy to trust the medical establishment for they are demonstrating in many areas monumental reasons for that distrust when it comes to chronic diseases like diabetes. Establishing cause leads to rational treatment and drug design and thus to avoiding a great deal of suffering, pain and death.

Diabetes has not been cured and insulin is actually highly dangerous, so there is no shortage of motive in searching for a primal precipitating cause that might suggest more effective and safer treatment protocols. Insulin is so prevalent in diabetic treatment but, according to a group of UCLA researchers, heart-suffering diabetics using insulin are 4 times more likely of dying. The figures will be published in the American Heart Journal in January of 2005. According to the researchers, 25-44 percent of heart-suffering people are also diabetic. The nexus between Type 2 diabetes, insulin and heart diseases is renowned, but this is the first time an official document, which will be widely accepted, reports a high death risk due to the use of insulin. The research, carried out on a sample of 554 patients with serious heart problems, proved that the survival rate one year after the diagnosis is 89.7 percent for non diabetic people, 85.5 pct in diabetic cases not treated with insulin, and 62.1 percent for diabetics treated with insulin. Long-term insulin use by patients with Type 2 diabetes is also associated with an increased risk of colon cancer, according to research reported in October of 2004 in the medical journal Gastroenterology. Dr. Yu-Xiao Yang compared insulin use between 125 diabetic patients who developed colon cancer and 1195 similar diabetic subjects who did not. Study results showed that if 100,000 insulin users were followed for one year, 197 would develop colon cancer. By contrast, if the same number of non-insulin users were followed, only 124 would develop colon cancer. The risk of colon cancer seems to have risen as the duration of insulin use increased. For example, insulin use for three to five years raised the cancer risk by threefold, whereas use for more than five years increased the risk by about fivefold.

Thus, the prognosis is not good for the diabetic patient if you stick with traditional concepts and treatment paths especially that of synthetic insulin, which is about the only insulin a diabetic can buy. These studies are important since they show how crucial it is to keep searching for a cause that will suggest a safer and more effective treatment. Insulin can kill in an instant, hyperglycaemia usually will not. Insulin is a high alert drug because of its ability to throw people into dangerously low blood sugars, and the new insulin analogs are not even insulin but only insulin-like. Diabetics want and need a cure. Prevention would even be better but it has not been forthcoming because no central cause has been identified. At the very least diabetics deserve glucose responsive insulin which is not what they have now. It's been over 80 years since they discovered insulin and in all this time there's no decline in rates of complications. They have not even devised a continuous glucose monitor that will work properly or a closed pump system that works well. Hopefully the future may offer these options to the diabetic patient and enhance their quality of life.