Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 89
— Part I 88 of contradiction, that perfect health is another name for perfect justice. To understand the issue of balance in relation to sugar in the human body, let us discuss the specific example of how much sugar is needed and what are the minimum and maximum levels. For each 100ml of blood there must always be at least 60mg of sugar available for consumption. But on the other side of the equation the sugar level must not exceed 180mg per 100 ml of blood. 5 If it exceeds that level then the state of imbalance is referred to as blood sugar. If, to keep the balance correct, the insulin fails to maintain the balance, the excess sugar in the blood is washed out by the kidneys so that the excessive presence of sugar in the blood may not corrode the cellular tissues of the body. When the excess is passed out into the urine, what we have is a case of diabetes with the unwarranted presence of sugar in the urine. Sometimes the threshold of the kidneys is high and the excess sugar in the blood is not washed out, resulting in dangerously high levels of sugar in the blood. This has a corrosive effect on some organs; the heart valves can also be eaten up by the excessive flow of sugar through them (like acid corroding the channels it flows in). The extra sugar is somehow deposited where the flow of the blood is slow, in places like the capillaries, causing many types of irritation and damage. When this happens in the blood capillaries of the eyes, the person may suffer from