A telegraph top 10 diet book, pure white and deadly by john yudkin is a mustread for those concerned with how much sugar we consume every day sugar. What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. Some coconut sugar products are not 100% coconut sugar but instead a blend with cane sugar. We know that when we eat it, its makes are foods taste better, but also at the same time. This is as much a popular science book as a warning about the dangers of sugar. Artificial sweeteners contain harmful substances that trick our bodies. Pure, white and deadly and over 8 million other books are available for.
Partially refined or raw sugar is 97% sucrose when it leaves hawaii and goes through a gigantic california refinery to produce refined sugar, 99. Celebrities and highprofile chefs have touted the benefits of replacing refined white sugar with purportedly more natural, healthier sugars, such as honey, maple syrup, or molasses. In his classic book sweet and dangerous wyden books, 1972, dr. Any substance applied to the body, ingested or developed within the. Im sure you already know that aspartame is an artificial sweetener known as nutrasweet, equal, sweet one, or spoonful, and its used in a variety of foods from diet soda, gum, candy, condiments, yogurt, cereals, and childrens vitamins what is so troubling is that it can be hidden in food under the name of natural flavors, artificial flavors. Sadly, the average american consumes approximately 50 teaspoons of refined sugar each and every day of their life. Refined sugar, commonly known as white sugar, is found in many foods, even those that you wouldnt expect.
It is a pure chemical extracted from plant sources, purer in fact than cocaine, which it resembles in many ways. Refined sugar stresses the metabolism, disrupts digestion and wreaks havoc in the brain. But the dangers of refined sugar arent limited to obesity and diabetes. It has also been connected with health issues ranging from dental decay, obesity, and diabetes to arthritis and cancer. If you are diabetic you should treat the consumption of coconut sugar the same as consuming refined white sugar. The dangers of refined sugars can wreak havoc on your body. White sugar and some brown sugar produced from sugar cane may still be refined using bone char by a few sugar cane refiners. In 2009 a lecture on the health effects of sugar by robert lustig, an american pediatric endocrinologist, went viral. Gillespie began reading john yudkins book pure, white and deadly, published in 1972, which also showed that consumption of sugar and refined sweeteners is closely associated with longterm disease. In 1972, when british scientist john yudkin first proved that sugar was bad for our health, he was ignored by the majority of the medical profession and. You may find yourself reaching for other foods to satisfy your sweet cravings, like refined starches, such as white bread and white rice, which can increase glucose levels, and comfort foods high in saturated fat and sodium, which also cause problems with heart health, he says.
But another danger is its high artificial fructose content, not to mention that it can be 75 times sweeter than white sugar. Refined sugar has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. A british professors 1972 book about the dangers of sugar is now seen. The average american consumes 22 teaspoons each day, which is over 150 pounds a year, and some sources state even closer to 180 pounds.
Pure white and deadly was originally published in the early 70s. Refined sugar is the sweetener health experts refer to when they warn against the dangers of too much added sugar in diets. Confectioners sugarrefined sugar mixed with cornstarchmade by these companies also involves the use of bone char. Did you know that it is eight times as addictive as cocaine. Not only are sugary foods high in calories, but it also suppresses your immune system, can cause sleep problems, weight gain and feed the bad bacteria growth in your belly. Plus, over time, eating refined sugar causes insulin resistance, meaning the insulin in our systems dont work as well, and our blood sugar is raised, causing diabetes. This new view of sugar could change the advice that doctors and government health officials give about eating the sweet stuff. Most of it hidden in processed foods and sweetened drinks. The sugar cane and beet plant in nature come complete with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals like any other plant. It has been connected with health issues ranging from dental decay, obesity, and diabetes to arthritis and cancer. Such is the force behind the concept of sugar being harmful that this book.
The dangers of refined sugar go beyond diabetes and obesity. Yet sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine, and americans are consuming 152 pounds of sugar a year double what the spanish eat. Refined, white sugar acts more like a drug than a food in our systembut it started as a whole plant. According to the article, brown raw sugar is the same as white sugar. Refined sugar may even be damaging to the digestive system, particularly for those who have difficulty digesting carbohydrates. There are a lot of claims made about honey, both good and bad, and some confusion around whether it is actually better than plain old white sugar, or if it is. William dufty described the sugar issue in his book sugar blues, published in 1975. It takes approximately 3 feet of sugar cane to produce 1 teaspoon of refined sugar. I hope that when you have read this book i shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous, wrote john yudkin in his foghornsounding.
Pure, white and deadly by john yudkin, a book widely derided at the time. White sugar, also called table sugar, granulated sugar or regular sugar, is the sugar commonly used in north america and europe, made either of beet sugar or cane sugar, which has undergone a refining process. It is extracted from sugar beets or sugar cane and processed to become granules, or what you know as table sugar or sucrose. The dangers of high fructose corn syrup rhonda sullivan devry university sugar is not sugar. Around onefourth of the american diet is comprised of refined sugars, and when you take a look at the foods available at most supermarkets, this fact is hardly surprising.
A bitter look at the sweet history of brown sugar the. The health problems posed by eating white sugar should not be underestimated. Know your products or ask someone who does know which products to use. What was once black eventually becomes white and in turn black culture is perceived as acceptable only when appropriated by whites as white sugar is given regulated amounts of molasses. Lustigs hope is that the information is considered as the u. So much so, that its harmful effects on health have been studied and researched by various institutions and specialists, who warn that excessive consumption is extremely bad for your health. Lisa byrne explains it in her workbook break the sugar habit. This book traces the history of sugar, how sugar is refined, and the many effects it has on body chemistry. For example, the masai and sumburu tribes of east africa, he explained, have almost no heart disease, yet they eat a highfat diet of mostly meat and. Sweetness is an enjoyable part of life and natures sweeteners are full of vitamins and. Pure, white and deadly is a 1972 book by john yudkin, a british nutritionist and former chair of. Why sugar is as bad as alcohol fructose, the liver toxin.
Because of my family medical history, of particular. Sweetness is an enjoyable part of life and natures sweeteners are full of vitamins and minerals. David reuben, author of everything you always wanted to know about nutrition says, white refined sugaris not a food. The man who wrote this book wrote that book i just mentioned in the 1950s. 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. The harmful effects of sugar on the body wellness mama. The dangers of refined sugar the healing center denver. Unfortunately it does seem a little extreme to label a food as a drug but when you look at how sugar especially the highly refined and processed kinds are metabolized by your body then you can begin to understand why. Sugar is a drug its been labeled the sweetest poison, toxic, and harmful and recently in hungry for change a drug. Sugar by mackenzie bolland 11p miss white sugar, a fatty tastes substance that is now in all are foods at a high level. Lustigs is more uptodate in that he incorporates new knowledge about our hormonal systems but both men come to a similar conclusion we should avoid i read this as a companion piece to robert lustigs fat chance.
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