Pure, White, and Deadly How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

Name: Pure, White, and Deadly How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
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ISBN: 9780143125181

ISBN-10: 0143125184

ISBN-13: 9780143125181

Edition: 2013

Authors: John Yudkin, Robert H. Lustig

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The classic exposé on the dangers of sugar, with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the bestselling author of Fat ChanceScientist John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans. His classic exposé, Pure, White, and Deadly, clearly and engagingly describes how sugar is damaging our bodies, why we eat so much of it, and what we can do to stop. He explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different typesis brown sugar really better than white?to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods, and how it is damaging our health.In 1972, Yudkin was mostly ignored by the health industry and media, but the events of the last forty years…

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.70" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Acknowledgments


"Prophecy and Propaganda": Introduction to the 2012 edition by Robert H. Lustig, M.D.


Introduction to the 1986 edition



What's so different about sugar?



I eat it because I like it



Sugar and other carbohydrates



Where sugar comes from



Is brown sugar better than white sugar?



Refined and unrefined



Not only sugar is sweet



Who eats sugar, and how much?



Words mean what you want them to mean



Sugar's calories make you thin-they say



How to eat more calories without eating real food



Can you prove it?



Coronary thrombosis, the modern epidemic



Eat sugar and see what happens



Too much blood sugar-or too little



A pain in the middle



A host of diseases



Does sugar accelerate the life process-and death too?



How does sugar produce its effects?



Should sugar be banned?



Attack is the best defense


References


Index