........Re: Re: Sugar .......the bitter truth.

[Guest guest]

I used to be a label reader. But now I just eat from the outer edges of the

grocery store. No labels to read when I eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds,

chicken and fish. Saves alot of time in the grocery store now and my body is

happier since I made the change. For sweetener for myself, I use stevia and

coconut palm sugar. But stevia does not work and palm sugar is even more

expensive.

Looks like sugar went up all over. Even a local restaurant who gets it in 50 lb

sacks is keeping stride with the price of every other one.

What is the name of the latin market in MD? The Hillcrest in Frederick does not

have any organic food. I can't find anyone else in a search of MD. I think it

was Al who suggested such a store in MD.

Lyn

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As far as I know the scobies can't survive without sugar of some form but we

can.

Clinical studies suggest that sugar is the root cause of a lot of illness. How

ever if your a label reader you know that it would be very difficult to

eliminate all sugar.

Carbs, mainly in the form of sugar is the real reason behind high cholesterol.

I'll bet your doctor didn't tell you that.

Harry

[Guest guest]

I am sure everyone that uses Kombucha has asked the question about the

healtfulness of using sugar, in some form, Lets just say that the word sugar is

chosen to keep keystrokes down, by half in most cases, From reading of Guenther

's book on Kombucha and Harald Tietze's, and Bety's books; I have found not

mention of Kombucha without sugar,

I marvel at, and would actually enjoy , using 100% natural ingredients, like

fruit purees, necters, or other sugar bases as a carbohydrate for Kombucha. Such

pioneers, if they would, should share the volumes, and measures to equip the

novice and unaccustomed to their more natural means of producing the Elixer of

Life.

I also ask myself what did the anceint Chinese, Nippon, and Manchurian cultures

use as a carbohydrate? Are we tampering with a known thing or doing what has

been done before? How did we come up with " sugar " as the carb neccesary?

I hope that sugar, esp., white cane sugar isnt a main food for anyone. Prices

are high everywhere, and have doubled in my area in the last 3 years for just

about everything eaten. So i some , money plays a role. Some of us simply cannot

afford a $30 salmon to feed 5 pple in our house, even if it is perferred to a 30

portion of steak.

Humans can and will survive on whatever they eat, the true question would be :

What happens in 10 years after surviving a diet totally deprived of carbs. No

fruit, on pasta, no bread, just meats? What happens to the human body pales to

what the spirit can enable us to survive.

Back to Kombucha, If the yeast and bacteria eat the sugars we humans give to

it, where is the harm. Unless we humans want more sugar and cut the fermentation

(primary) short, and then do no 2ndary ferment drafting straight from the

Brewing vessel.?

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> As far as I know the scobies can't survive  without sugar of some form but we

can.

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> Clinical studies suggest that sugar is the root cause of a lot of illness. How

ever if your a label reader you know that it would be very difficult to

eliminate all sugar.

>

> Carbs, mainly in the form of sugar is the real reason behind high cholesterol.

I'll bet your doctor didn't tell you that.

>

> Harry

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