Stay Healthy!!

I think it is appropriate with Halloween coming up this weekend, to remind everyone, especially parents, of the disastrous effects that white sugar has upon the immune system. I am betting if someone took statistics of sickness after this particular spooky night, they would see a huge spike in kids illness the next week.

Why? See the chart below. Clearly we need to reduce the amount of refined sugar we consume. However please show people this chart before they start mowing down on all those little chocolate bars and liquorice.

And this is especially true for our kids! Be sure you are adding extra Isamune and kids are consuming our immune enhancing shakes all week long! Keep your family healthy by giving small portions of the candy at different times or do like we do- the candy somehow starts to 'disappear', then makes its way up high in the cupboards until it is forgotten...and thrown away.



Impaired Immune System Functioning
The following chart shows what refined sugar can do to the effectiveness of our white blood cells, those members of our immune system that eat up foreign invaders, and in fact seek out and destroy our own cells that have become cancerous.

Effect of Refined Sugar on White Blood Cell Activity 18
Amount Refined Number of Bacteria 2
Sugar Consumed a WBC Can Destroy Decrease in Immunity
in 1/2 hour
No sugar 14 0%
6 teaspoons = 10 25%
8 oz. of soft drink
12 teaspoons = 5.5 60%
frosted brownie
18 teaspoons = 2 85%
apple pie à la mode
24 teaspoons = 1 92%
banana split
Uncontrolled Diabetic 1 92%

(Special Note: A 12-ounce can of soda contains 9 teaspoons of sugar. An 8-ounce serving of fruit-flavored yoghurt contains almost as much.)19