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

by John Yudkin, Robert H. Lustig (Introduction)

Overview

More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic exposé on the dangers of sugar—reissued here with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the bestselling author of Fat Chance.

Scientist 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 types—is brown sugar really better than white?—to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods, and how it is harming our health.

In 1972, Yudkin was mostly ignored by the health industry and media, but the events of the last forty years have proven him spectacularly right. Yudkin’s insights are even more important and relevant now, with today’s record levels of obesity, than when they were first published. Brought up-to-date by childhood obesity expert Dr. Robert H. Lustig, this emphatic treatise on the hidden dangers of sugar is essential reading for anyone concerned about their health, the health of their children, and the wellbeing of modern society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143125181
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/07/2013
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	224,935
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John Yudkin (1910-1995) was a British physiologist and nutritionist. He became internationally famous with his book Pure, White, and Deadly, first published in 1972, and was one of the first scientists to claim that sugar was a major cause of obesity and heart disease.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

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

Introduction to the 1986 edition xvii

1 What's so different about sugar? 1

2 I eat it because I like it 6

3 Sugar and other carbohydrates 18

4 Where sugar comes from 21

5 Is brown sugar better than white sugar? 26

6 Refined and unrefined 32

7 Not only sugar is sweet 35

8 Who eats sugar, and how much? 41

9 Words mean what you want them to mean 58

10 Sugar's calories make you thin-they say 63

11 How to eat more calories without eating real food 73

12 Can you prove it? 77

13 Coronary thrombosis, the modern epidemic 92

14 Eat sugar and see what happens 106

15 Too much blood sugar-or too little 117

16 A pain in the middle 133

17 A host of diseases 142

18 Does sugar accelerate the life process-and death too? 160

19 How does sugar produce its effects? 167

20 Should sugar be banned? 178

21 Attack is the best defense 187

References 215

Index 223