LETTER TO AMERICA: The Great Health Scam

As an American do you feel that the average person in your circle has a healthy diet? Do you believe that we need to focus more on nutrition and overall body health?  Have you been given a nutrition evaluation or had any nutritional education? Is your body morphology outside what is considered healthy?  How is your breath or waistline? Do your gums bleed? Have you put off dental treatment because of cost or fear? Is sugar and fructose to blame or is bad fat? 

These questions need to be confronted. Why? Because many people have been given bad information or have a health or dental condition that will catch up with them. Sugar is very good at attacking every part of the body and it begins in the mouth. The mouth acts like a barometer providing evidence of unhealthy conditions, and therefore has been the focus of many extensive studies. We now know that the health of the mouth is key to the health of the body. Many hospitals and doctors now require a clearance from a dentist concerning the condition of the gums. Why? Because gum disease has been linked to infections of joints, heart vessels and other organs. This is one reason why my new book is called Dentistry Xposed. 

In 1984, Marlan Mattox invited me on his radio show where I was able to share on the dangers of sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup. I explained that in the 70's, Nixon had instituted a program to decrease the cost of food. Fructose corn syrup was so cheap it became an instant solution. At the same time the sugar cartel was using research to convince people that it was fat not sugar that was causing heart disease and other problems. Fats were then removed, and to keep food tasty, it became convenient to add the HFCS. This magnified all our problems.

Now a top Endocrinologist, Dr. Lustig who often teaches medical students, warns about the long-term effects of HFCS to our liver and health. He describes how AGE's and other dangerous end products are formed in the liver, and how a fatty liver will affect the whole body. AGE's also happens when we over-heat foods and sear them causing the unnatural fusion of proteins to fats (fatty acids) and to sugars. These end-products can lodge in capillaries and thus affect the brain, the eyes, and all the senses including our major organs. AGE's stands for Accumulated Glycation End-Products and is likened to poison.

Since 80’s the nation has developed the largest per capita ratio of diabetic patients in what is called the “First World” of economies. Despite all our high technology and massive expenditures in healthcare, we do not compare well with little Finland. After sixty-one years of research Finland knows the value of a simple sugar that fights bacteria and does not harm the liver, pancreas, heart, teeth or other tissue. This sugar, called xylitol, is found in fruit and vegetables and is even produced in our bodies and stored in the mitochondria of our cells. This is what I call a "super-natural" sugar - since it is made in our own bodies!

Finland gave xylitol to their kids in WWII when the Nazi’s blocked the import of sugar. Twenty years later they found that these grown-up kids had no tooth decay and little history of disease. Imagine that NO TOOTH DECAY! That would normally make the headlines. Unfortunately, xylitol was introduced into our nation while High Fructose Corn Syrup was being promoted by both the politicians and the economists. Because xylitol was more expensive and came from abroad, the policy makers immediately nixed its promotion and use in our food supply. Xylitol was suppressed even though many doctors and scientists knew it had healing powers.

America’s sugar, HFCS, worked its way into almost every kind of processed food including pretzels, sports drinks, canned foods, jams, lunch meats, cereals, junk munchies, yogurt, juices and candies. This Halloween, the sugar industry made and delivered about 2.4 billion dollars’ worth of candies and other sweet products to the mouths of our children and eager adults. Unlike the 6-carbon sugar fructose, 5-carbon xylitol protects the colon from the yeast Candida, soothes the lining with butyrates, and prevents constipation; all of which help stop colon cancer. Because it is a symmetrical molecule and has a tridentate ligand, xylitol can carry calcium ions to rebuild bone and tooth enamel. It prevents tooth decay and stimulates the flow of saliva helping those with dry mouth. HFCS generates obesity, fatty liver disease and many other chronic problems. This may have been America’s worst health mistake. 

Now xylitol is primarily produced in China from corn cobs. Instead of building a xylitol industry in our country and promoting food-medicines, our leaders chose to create high fructose factories and have slowly poisoned the population. While Europe and Asia kept fat in foods and learned to use xylitol, we have been taught to love donuts and other super-sweet treats. To use sugar to motivate a child or to market a business or church is especially egregious. A good example is when the church gives away thousands of free “Cracker Jack” boxes or “Easter Marshmallow’s.”

There is hope, however.  Even though we have put ourselves and our loved ones under harm’s way, we can still affect change. There is Great Reward in breaking food, alcohol, and drug addictions. It takes education and awareness. This is one very good reason for this book. There is nothing wrong with a desert during a meal, however, when we stoke-up-the-body with excessive calories to satisfy a deep desire, then we have encroached upon the true meaning of gluttony.

Dentistry Xposed goes into detail about other falsehoods and misunderstandings. Our system is manufacturing disease with over 500 drugs and medications that cause dry mouth. Dry mouth is one of the major causes of gum disease or tooth decay and the formation of bacterial plaques which release tissue destroying enzymes into our blood stream or lungs. This affects organs such as the heart, pancreas and brain along with the health of the fetus.

Another manufactered problem has to do with forcing companies to age liquor in new barrels. These alcoholic beverages have greater impurities than those made with already aged barrels. Pathologists believe that this is why liquors are a big cause of oral cancers. Other areas of falsehoods and myths revolve around the care of teeth and gums and how they are treated. There is a billion dollar industry based on placing crowns and doing unnecessary deep cleanings in the mouth.

The solution can be as simple as maintaining a non-acidic saliva with the use of xylitol mints. The battle can be a Mental & Spiritual struggle requiring good support, teaching & restoration. Like smoking there is more than a chemical stimulation involved. Sitting in front of a TV is part of the reward system that motivates us to move the arms, fingers and mouth closer to the poisons.  Stop rewarding yourself, your kids and others with sugar and empty snacks, and learn to use good substitutes like safe natural foods or xylitol.   

"For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light."

Sincerely Yours, Peter Hofmann DDS, GO TO: DentistryXposed.com, 972-960-1913, 15615 Coit Rd. Ste.107 Dallas, Tex. 75248