Pure, white and deadly : how sugar is killing us and what we can do to stop it

Yudkin, John, 1910-1995, author.

Book 2012

Explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better than white - to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods, and how it is damaging our health. This book is suitable for those interested in their health, the health of their children and the health of modern society.

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Food Sugar content

Sugar Physiological effect

Sugar in the body

Sugars in human nutrition

View technical details & catalog information

ISBN:

9780241965283
9780143125181
0241965284

Description:

xii, 200 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:

Previous edition: 1986
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index

Contents:

'Prophecy nand propaganda': introiduction to the 2012 edition / Robert H. Lustig
1. What's so different about sugar?
2. I eat it because I like it
3. Sugar and other carbohydrates
4. Where sugar comes from
5. Is brown sugar better than white sugar?
6. Refined and unrefined
7. Not only sugar is sweet
8. Who eats sugar, and how much?
9. Words mean what you want them to mean
10. Sugar's calories make you thin - they say
11. How to eat more calories without eating real food
12. Can you prove it?
13. Coronary thrombosis, the modern epidemic
14. Eat sugar and see what happens
15. Too much blood sugar - or too little
16. A pain in the middle
17. A host of diseases
18. Does sugar accelerate the life process - and death too?
19. How does sugar produce its effects?
20. Should sugar be banned?
21. Attack is the best defence

Control Number:

964708

View in Classic Catalog