Sweet food builds the body tissues and calms the nerves. In balanced quantities it helps digestion, nurtures and heals the stomach, spleen and pancreas. Fruits, grains, natural sugar, milk, milk products, mangoes, banana, beans, lentils, carrots, sweet potatoes and beetroot are some of the sweet foods.

Sweet food also decreases the body’s immunity. It inhibits and hampers the efficiency of the white blood cells in destroying invading bacteria. Excess sugar suppresses immunity. Twenty five grams of sugar can affect the immune system for several hours. The immune suppression is prominent during the first two hours after ingestion but usually lasts much longer. When 100 grams (20 teaspoons) is ingested, the efficiency of white blood cells may get reduced by as much as 40 percent.

Immune system gets boosted by eating fresh vegetables, greens, fruits, nuts, seeds and whole grains. It is ideal for women to limit the daily average intake of sugar to 5 teaspoons and for men to keep it less than 8 teaspoons. Sugar consumes calcium from the body! Real cane sugar is rich in minerals and vitamins but the refined pure white sugar is not. Refined pure cane sugar is also a white poison just like the refined white salt. Sugar is both a sweet poison and a white poison.

When our bodies come under stress, they excretes calcium in the urine. This helps the body to respond to the stress better. Those who live under constant stress are continuously losing calcium in their urine. Calcium rich food like Cheese, yogurt, milk and milk products, dark green leafy vegetables, calcium enriched cereals, orange juice and soy milk must be included in daily diet to replace the loss of calcium.

Honey is a sweet food but it also has health benefits. It is nature’s greatest energy booster, a great immunity system builder and a natural medicine for many ailments.