Daily Journal February 19, 1998, William Thomas Thompson. "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord," Psalms 150-6 I believe God is showing me through this suffering experience with sweets that sugar is causing arthritis in thousands that are unaware of the damages that may be caused from the effects of the sugar consumed daily. While I am convinced that natural sugar is better, it still is sugar and some ill effects on me. If I eat a sweet, I will eat it because it is special like apple pie at S&S, ice cream at Cataran or a moon pie. I can be tempted by fresh and hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts made one mile from here and sold to the public right off the conveyor belt. I could eat a ° dozen any time. I do not blow it on sweeten ice tea or coke. I have overcome those temptations. I am working on overcoming the better and more vital sweets marginal and basic such as sweet corn, sweet potatoes, strawberries and cornbread made from premix with sugar added. Do the canneries add sugar to sweet corn or does it occur naturally? The can list sugar. I get seemingly the same bad feeling from canned sweet corn as I do from desert. The cafeteria always adds sugar to sweet potatoes and fresh strawberries, why? Slaw always has a sweetened dressing. If I am going to do it, I am going to do it right. Don't slip sugar in my food, it makes me angry. There is no such thing as a little sugar. Many put it in bread. Cornbread mix has both sugar and flour. I have a book on gluten intolerance and fear wheat products, although I believe the most potent poison to be NutraSweet and a protein supplement. Minerals are no doubt the most important to the health of my body and I believe true for everybody. I question how the minerals are harvested and how much aluminum is included. I have been taking a spoonful about 2 times per week for 2 bottles now. This producer list 77 minerals. The name is body booster by TRC of Tulsa 1-800-421-7310, list no sugar but does list aluminum. Another producer list cherry favor with no aluminum. This taste like pure metal spoiled rust, it will not mix with cream in my coffee and burns my throat, it is strong with a kick like a mule, a liquid concentrate from prehistoric plants in their unaltered colloidal form,33.5 oz tall bottle. This is all the known minerals including zinc, magnesium, copper, tin, selenium, calcium and potassium to mention a few. Salt or sodium is included, also listed are chlorine, arsenic, aluminum, fluorine, gold, lead, mercury, nickel and silver. Also listed is oxygen. This is available in most health food stores for about $18.00. I feel and believe it is better to get all the above in a variety of the right foods eaten daily. It is possible as they say that some soils have depleted the minerals from not putting plants back in the ground to rot and rest every 7 years. These minerals are said to be mined in Utah, The Rockland Mine in Emery County. One may think that with the way the health food industry in general go about advertising how good all these products are, that one would be instantly healed after taking some of the stuff, but I do not find it this way at all. In fact, I suffer with my back hurting after taking most vitamins such as B and E. I have lots of these never taken. I have Glucosamine Sulfate for my hands and fingers, Nature’s Sunshine Arthritis cure which includes poison ivy. None of this yet has helped me. All the stuff I have purchased would I believe, if taken, kills a horse. Save us Lord from health foods.