"Sugar and gluten are like squirting gasoline..."

I received a message through a Yahoo celiac support group called Silly Yaks, and thought it was so interesting, I got permission from the author to post it here on my blog:

Last night I attended the Wheaton Gluten-Free Support Group meeting, with Sueson, our fearless leader and Dr. Tom O'Bryan lecturing on "Inflammation: Sources and Solutions". The big surprise is that they took aim at sugar. Sueson said that "Sugar feeds cancer. For a PET scan, you have to eliminate all sugar for 24 hours. Then they inject you with nuclear sugar. It all goes to the cancer." She cited http://rheumatic.org/sugar.htm

Dr. O'Bryan said "Sugar is an inflamatory compound...Every disease is an inflammatory disease." He talked about trying to light charcoals, and the experience of having to lay a lit match on the already lighter fluid soaked coals, and squirting more fluid on the coals around the match, and having the splashed droplets of fluid hitting the match, and finally getting the charcoal to light. He asked "What would happen if you squirted gasoline on the coals with the lit match on them? Sugar and gluten are like squirting gasoline...Inflammation is the mechanism of all degenerative disease, at the cellular level."

He clarified a statement he made in October: Celiac "blood tests are only accurate when you have total villous atrophy. Otherwise they are wrong 7 out of 10 times." (Michael)

I found the analogy so interesting, I just had to share. Thank you, Michael, for attending the meeting and for sharing this information! There are people with celiac disease who can handle small amounts of gluten with no apparent adverse effects, and yet it still does internal damage all the way into the cellular level.... something to think about!

The webpage on sugar is mindblowing, even to me (I've been sugar-free, starch-free, alcohol-free, caffeine-free since hypoglycemia diagnosos in 1980) showing it to be the cause of so many cancers. Sueson really emphasized to women the necessity to eliminate sugar, citing reasons #9 and #92 from Nancy Appleton's "146 Reasons Why Sugar Is Ruining Your Health" (Michael)

The following websites are highly recommended:
Sueson Vess's website:  http://www.specialeats.com/
Dr. Tom O'Bryan's website:  http://www.thedr.com/
Nancy Appleton's article: www.rheumatic.org/sugar.htm