Hi everybody. > >While I think it is correct to be concerned about sugar in the >diet, it really seems to me that the focus of that concern should >be the *amount* of sugar, not its absolute presence or absence. At a recent Vancouver seminar, Dr. David Schweitzer said that sugar cane is heated in processing with a lime liquor to extract the calcium and the sweet liquid from the plant. This process destroys all the vitamins. Lime, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, calcium hydroxide and sodium carbonate are all then added, and the mass is then treated with strontium hydroxide and sent to the sugar refinery, there to be cleansed with calcium carbonic acid. Dark particles are removed with sulfuric acid and bone charboal filtration. The final product is dyed with indanthreme blue or highly toxic ultraamarine. This is what ends up on store shelves and in the sugar bowls of consumers! Strontium hydroxide is radio active. The moment you consume it in sugar the thyroid gland becomes hyperactive...German researchers have learned that intelligence, measured in terms of the mental capacity to think, reason and memorize, is significantly reduced when sugar is consumed.