Life Desk :
When the rest of the world is turning their face away from refined or processed sugar, consumers in Bangladesh have been tending to the detrimental food item. Refined white sugar attracts a large proportion of consumers, but domestically made cane sugar cannot take its fancy, though it is safer, healthier and more suitable as a child food. Refined sugar loses its important nutrients including vitamin, mineral, protein and enzyme during its processing in the factory, which turns it severely harmful for human body.
Extra chemicals are added to refined sugar for sweetening while more harmful elements are used for whitening. Sulfur and bone meal power are mixed with it during the refinery process.
A study conducted by the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the UK finds that per 100kg locally produced cane sugar contains 160.32 milligram calcium while the same amount of imported refined sugar has only 1.56 to 2.65mg calcium. It also finds that per 100kg cane sugar contains 142.09mg potassium, 2.05-10.79mg phosphorus and 0.42-6.00mg iron but processed one contains only 0.32-0.35mg potassium, 2.36-2.35mg phosphorus and 0.47-0.82mg iron.
The first one likewise has 0.15-3.86mg magnesium and 0.06-0.07mg sodium, while the processed sugar contains 0.66-1.21mg magnesium and 0.02-0.03mg sodium. Taking the hygienic matter into account the countries which do not produce cane sugar are starting to use stevia, a sugar substitute that comes from a plant, and has no calories. Dr William Coda Martin, in a study paper, had showed that processed sugar is too harmful for health and described it as poison.
Dr William mentioned that in the whitening process of refined sugar, only carbohydrate is kept removing vitamin and mineral from it. But human body cannot take only carbohydrate.
Carbohydrate sans mineral and vitamin causes toxic metabolite in the body and different organs of the human body lose their work capacity, he continued.
The study also proved that carbohydrate sans mineral and vitamin also results in death of cells in human body for want of oxygen. Dr William proved that refined sugar destroys the immune system and affects kidney, heart and brain.
When the rest of the world is turning their face away from refined or processed sugar, consumers in Bangladesh have been tending to the detrimental food item. Refined white sugar attracts a large proportion of consumers, but domestically made cane sugar cannot take its fancy, though it is safer, healthier and more suitable as a child food. Refined sugar loses its important nutrients including vitamin, mineral, protein and enzyme during its processing in the factory, which turns it severely harmful for human body.
Extra chemicals are added to refined sugar for sweetening while more harmful elements are used for whitening. Sulfur and bone meal power are mixed with it during the refinery process.
A study conducted by the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the UK finds that per 100kg locally produced cane sugar contains 160.32 milligram calcium while the same amount of imported refined sugar has only 1.56 to 2.65mg calcium. It also finds that per 100kg cane sugar contains 142.09mg potassium, 2.05-10.79mg phosphorus and 0.42-6.00mg iron but processed one contains only 0.32-0.35mg potassium, 2.36-2.35mg phosphorus and 0.47-0.82mg iron.
The first one likewise has 0.15-3.86mg magnesium and 0.06-0.07mg sodium, while the processed sugar contains 0.66-1.21mg magnesium and 0.02-0.03mg sodium. Taking the hygienic matter into account the countries which do not produce cane sugar are starting to use stevia, a sugar substitute that comes from a plant, and has no calories. Dr William Coda Martin, in a study paper, had showed that processed sugar is too harmful for health and described it as poison.
Dr William mentioned that in the whitening process of refined sugar, only carbohydrate is kept removing vitamin and mineral from it. But human body cannot take only carbohydrate.
Carbohydrate sans mineral and vitamin causes toxic metabolite in the body and different organs of the human body lose their work capacity, he continued.
The study also proved that carbohydrate sans mineral and vitamin also results in death of cells in human body for want of oxygen. Dr William proved that refined sugar destroys the immune system and affects kidney, heart and brain.
