From the Desk of Carolyn Dean MD ND
I’ve been introducing you to my latest publication, Death by Modern Medicine, where I’ve chronicled the outrages of modern medicine. These blogs give you digestible portions of the 15 chapters and an overall insight into the areas that are important to monitor and be aware of in your own life.
Chapter Ten: Death By Sugar
As you watch someone take in 10 teaspoons of sugar in a few minutes as they drink a cola from the can, think about the companies and organizations that are intensely invested in that sugar.
Patients have the feeling – even the belief – that doctors will tell them if sugar or any other substance is dangerous. I hear it all the time, “my doctor would have told me if I shouldn’t drink a liter of coke every day.” But it’s never been safe for doctors to speak out against dangerous, lucrative substances.
As you can read in Chapter One of Death by Modern Medicine, when I went on a daytime talk show in Toronto, Canada to talk about the dangers of sugar in our diet, a prominent sugar lobby group lodged a complaint against me to my medical licensing board. Their case against me was written up in our provincial doctors’ quarterly bulletin serving as a warning to others who might ‘get out of line.’
So you can believe that doctors won’t throw sugar under the bus when they know they medical licenses were at risk. Read this chapter in my book to learn about the studies, statistics and scary facts about sugar.
One of the greatest dangers of sugar is that it contributes to magnesium deficiency. You require 28 molecules of magnesium to metabolize one molecule of sucrose. It’s no wonder that a kids’ birthday party leaves everyone cranky, irritable, inflamed and sick. They’ve depleted their already low magnesium!
Diabetes
Have you ever wondered why so many people you know are on some kind of medication for diabetes? The American and Canadian diabetes organizations assert there is no known cause of adult onset diabetes, but claim a genetic component.
Or maybe… just maybe…the incredible rise in the incidence of diabetes in the last two generations does not indicate a sudden change in genes but points to an environmental cause. What is new in the environment that wasn’t there 100 years ago? Sugar! We have an annual intake of 150 pounds per person, compared with 10 pounds 100 years ago.
You really need to read this chapter before you pop the lid on another can of soda! And DO NOT replace your sugared soda with an aspartame soda. That’s another world of danger for you!
Chapter Eleven: Death By Addiction
Of course, my discussion of the dangers of sugar naturally evolves into a discussion of death by addiction.
Sugar is an addiction far stronger than what we see with heroin. It is the basic addictive substance from which all other addictions flow. Refined sugar and all refined foods such as polished rice, white flour and the like, are nothing less than legalized poisons.
~Abram Hoffer, MD.
Sugar is a basic addictive substance, and you may not know is that sugar is used in the curing process of tobacco. But most people know that when anyone gives up smoking or alcohol, the first thing they turn to is sweets thinking it’s a lesser evil than cigarettes.
Tobacco
The first cases of lung cancer associated with tobacco were reported in 1912. A mere 55 years later, in 1957, Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney issued the “Joint Report of Study Group on Smoking and Health,” stating that, “Prolonged cigarette smoking was a causative factor in the etiology of lung cancer.” By 1970, it was mandated that a warning be printed on all cigarette packages stating, “The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health.”
Despite this widespread and public knowledge for the last six decades, the US tobacco market apparently reached 365 billion in 2024. The US tax revenue on tobacco was $10.3 billion in 2023 so that’s a good reason for government to support the tobacco industry. In 2022, cigarette companies spent $23.5 million per DAY on marketing to Americans.
On the extreme downside, in 2018, cigarette smoking cost the US more than $600 billion in healthcare, lost productivity and premature death.
Chapter 11 in my book shares shocking details about the 4000 known chemicals in cigarette smoke; 43 of which are known carcinogens
Alcohol
The more people drink, the more they abuse alcohol, and the more alcohol abuses their bodies. If a person by sheer force of will and the higher power that is so important in the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous manages to maintain their abstinence, they usually become addicted to sugar as a substitute.
A very ironic fact is that you can create your own alcoholic brew by excessive sugar intake that allows gut yeast to produce alcohol. Measurable alcohol levels have been found in people with massive yeast overgrowth that is fed by chronic simple carbohydrate consumption. However, if you treat for yeast overgrowth with natural antifungals and picometer silver and give a person the necessary nutrients for good health, such as chromium, zinc, magnesium, B vitamins, and vitamin C, the body doesn’t crave sugar or alcohol.
Pills
A CBC special about our pill-taking population reported that the U.S. is responsible for 5% of the world’s population but 42% of the world’s spending on prescription drugs to the tune of $250 billion in 2005¹. By 2024, it was $463 billion, a testament that drug-based medicine is not ‘curing’ anyone.
Most people don’t know the risks associated with the prescriptions they’re taking. They don’t read the package inserts or the drug books that list dozens, sometimes hundreds of side effects for most drugs. And what happens for those people who are prescribed five to ten drugs to take every day? The potential side effects from this type of polypharmacy are incalculable.
Many people are exposed to up to ten ads per day on TV, promoting the latest and greatest drug. And despite regulations imposed in November, 2024² to ensure advertisers reveal harmful side effects of the drugs, patients continue to ask their doctors to prescribe the drugs they saw advertised during their favorite talk show on Doctor TV.
Of course, addiction is a complex topic, and I invite you to read Chapter 11 to learn more about addiction studies which include some surprising revelations.
Chapter Twelve: Death By Denial
Writing chapter after chapter about the abuses of modern medicine and modern science in this book I tried to understand where our collective reason and common sense have gone. Why have we gone into denial about the effects of modern medicine and modern technology?
What happens to people who ignore, avoid, or cover up cases of death by medicine, chemicals, surgery, and drugs—as we have outlined in the preceding chapters?
In Chapter 12, I share some of the insights from psychiatrist, Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who pioneered the five distinct stages that an individual experiences going through a catastrophic life event – commonly known as the five stages of grief with the first being denial. Throughout the stages of grief, Kubler-Ross has said that hope is always present.
In my way of thinking, as you review the sometimes-frightening messages outlined in my book, you might be saying, “No, this shouldn’t or couldn’t happen to me; it can’t be true.” My intention, however, is to always offer that glimmer of hope, with real world solutions that you can commit to doing to increase your personal health and well-being.
Please delve into this chapter to learn more about how denial in big business, dentistry, and in hormone replacement therapy has contributed to ill health for decades.
My third edition of Death by Modern Medicine is my ultimate argument for why you have to take charge of your own health and wellbeing. My websites, books, products, blogs, podcasts and articles all offer implementable actions to help you take charge!
Stay tuned for the next article where I outline the last three chapters of Death by Modern Medicine.
Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future.
¹A Nation of Pill-Takers. CBS. Oct. 22, 2006
