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Sugar Blues (平装)
by William Dufty
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An amazingly fearless and effective book that has shed new light on the evils of refined sugar. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
Forget the indespensible information on the completely non-existent nutritional value of refined sugar. Forget the anecdotal mind-blowing gems like how mosquitos and other disease carrying insects fly past a recovered sugar addict's body because they are no longer attracted to what was once swett smelling and tasting blood. Forget the paradigm shift his expose demands on the causes of a significant portion of all automobile accidents in this country. Forget his linking glucose intolerence to diseases- diagnosed, undiagnosed and falsely diagnosed over the centuries- from tooth decay to epilepsy to heart diesase to schizophrenia to lung cancer. Just ruminate on the historical fact brought out by this man that the hunger for refined sugar, and the subsequent addiction to this mind and body destroying chemical is the architect of: the African Slave trade in Europe and the Americas; the disconnect and disjunct philosophy of mind and body health being separate entities in Western medicine (just now being gradually overturned)and "paganist"/mental illness - related diseases of mythical, otherwise inexplicable derivation; and the geo-political international trade structure and chemical dependency supply and demand relationship that made everything from the decimation of Native American tribes and lands in the Americas to the Medellin and Sicilian cartels of heroin and cocaine creating international public policy today not just possible but inevitable. In short, Mr. Dufty has written one of the most important books of this century, and has become a public servant to a level rivalling that of leaders and thinkers like Martin Luther, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther King... it is impossible not to get emotional about what this man shows us and teaches us, and how the evidence, like the final moments of a Sherlock Holmes movie, puts the mysterious pieces of the most tormented periods of one's personal life and that of human history since the Middle ages together for all to understand simultaneuosly. Anyone who has been touched by alcoholism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, heart disease, depression, obesity, anorexia, drug addiction, diabetes; racism, religious intolerence, alcohol-, car accident- and drug-related crimes; co-dependency-related divorce, dysfunctional families- in short, everyone citizen of the Western World, which by political proxy is everyone, will. |
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Darcy Chase (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I am not quite finished with this book, but ready I would say that I recommend it. The author gives a lot of historicaly information about sugar, including the health, economic and political issues that were (and continue to be) tied to it. He describes his own experiences as a sugar addict and how he overcame that, with wonderful healthly results. My husband and I keep reading each other passages from the book...and I can no longer eat sugar without feeling very bad about it. I am considering serious diet changes due to reading this book. Please read this, because Dufty is not telling us anything new, he is just revealing what has been known for a very long time: sugar is dangerous for human health! |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I am not exagerating when I say this book changed my life. It has been 23 years since I first read The Sugar Blues and it has been reaffirmed repeatedly in that time. The history of sugar helped me to undertand how it worked its way into the modern diet and the scientific descriptions of what happens to sugar as it is refined clarified the root problem. I am not diebetic or hypoglycemic and yet my metabolism simply cannot process this poison. I was a depressed child with bad skin until good chiropractic care and this book turned things around for me. Anybody with acne should read this book and make it their Bible. |
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Oliver Callis (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
This interesting and quick read makes a compelling case against sugar, the industrial food establishment and various agencies which support and are supported by it. It may be somewhat one sided but with as much sugar pervasiveness in our food supply and pro-sugar and pro-industrial food propaganda in the media as there is out there I think it's called for. The historical perspective is thought provoking, even if some of it is anecdotal or speculative, sugar is rarely discussed in terms of history (i.e. in the motives for the colonization, and installation of slave sugar cane plantations in the new world). Overall, if you are trying to give up sugar in its entirety, this book is the one to instill the impetus in you. I do wish William Dufty had studied a bit more of what Dr. Weston Price published in "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" which he makes reference to. Dr. Price made important nutritional discoveries in his research in the 1930's of indigenous cultures and their health, which Dufty refers to but does not incorporate into his diet recommendations. One book which I can recommend wholeheartedly which takes a contemporary look at the issues which both Dufty and Price raise is Nourishing Traditions: The cookbook that challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig M.D.. It is a comprehensive cookbook, primer on traditional nutrition and amazing culinary practice. I guarantee it will cut through the haze of diet fads and confirm what your great grandmother knew to be true with good science. But read Dufty's book, and kick your sugar habit! |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
If Americans would read this book and take it seriously, that would be the end of our modern food processing industry as we know it, especially the cereal industry. It would also quite possibly end our epidemic of diabetes and other debilitating diseases, IMHO.
The only reason our food processors use sugar as their main "filler" ingredient is because they can't get away with using saw dust or horse dung (not yet, anyway). The FDA has been AWOL on this for a long time, proving we have the best Congressmen that money can buy. They are supposed to oversee these agencies, but were long ago bought off by the lobbies.
My grandmother gave me some very good advice one time. When you go into a supermarket to shop, stick to the walls. You'll stay far healthier that way. "Sugar Blues" explains why.
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Mallette (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I read this book when I was in my early 20s and immediately gave up sugar. Back then (early 1980s) it was much more difficult to find substitutes; I remember buying carob bars sweetened with honey at a health food store and making "candy" by combining peanut butter, powdered milk, honey and raisins. These were my only "sweet indulgences." I was determined never to touch refined sugar again. Within a few months I was at my slimmest ever (5'-8", 125 lbs), despite that I continued to eat very high-fat foods such as pizza, burgers, steaks (with butter on them!), corn chips and french fries. So long as it didn't contain sugar, it was fair game. I felt great and had tons of energy. Unfortunately my mother poo-pooed the whole idea of sugar being bad, and continuously tried to undermine my efforts by concocting huge, beautiful desserts whenever I visited. Eventually I gave in when she urged me to "just have a little piece" of German chocolate cake. It was all downhill from there. It had been too long since I read this wonderful book (about two years); apparently I'd forgotten its lessons.
Now, over 20 years later, I have kicked sugar again. I wish I had never gone back to it in the first place. I have currently been sugar-free for just over two months, and despite that I continue to eat high-fat foods and do not exercise at all (LOL - yup, gotta be honest here), I have lost at least ten pounds. (Since I don't have a scale, I have to rely on my monthly doctor's visits to find out my weight.) I feel more energetic and I'm able to sleep through the night for the first time in at least a year without using sleeping pills. (Goodbye, expensive Ambien!!!)
I found it much easier to kick my sugar habit this time around, given the many sugar-free products that exist due to the low-carb dieting craze. You'll find, however, that your cravings all but disappear. I keep one bag of sugar-free York peppermint patties in my desk at work and one at home, and a box of sugar-free Fudgicles in my freezer. This way if I do get an occasional craving, I can look right past my husband's sugar-laden ice cream, candy bars and cookies. Yes, artificial sweeteners are supposed to be bad for you also, but as rarely as I eat them, I'm not at all worried. If you read this book, you'll not want refined white sugar anywhere near you. Some day I'll get my husband to try this; he has been diagnosed with clinical depression and never has any energy. He drinks a two-liter bottle of cola every day and eats ice cream and cookies every night. (Sugar blues, anyone?) Like William Dufty and his wife, Gloria Swanson, I'd love for us both to live well into our late 80s, looking and feeling great!
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Wood (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
For anyone that suspects that health data is corrupt in the US, this book provides ample evidence. I have concluded for some time that truth in food advertising is an oxymoron. Most Journalists are corrupted by the missinformation spread by large companies. Food processing companies for some time have been trying to trick us into eating factory produced food, if the food is not processed, they don't make money because they cannot add value. They have been supresing data and research that concludes that we should eat less processed food. This book covers both sugar and wheat flour, the two most used and abused ingriedients in the US food supply. The US FDA for some unknown reason, not covered in this book is party to this ongoing sham. This author supports his hypothesis with historical facts. The book is written in a very entertaining and readable fasion. Any European who has visited the US can attest to the over sweetened products here. Likewise the bread is tasteless and empty of texture, but full of highly processed grains, sugar and fats. This book explains why. Here's a real life example of what the author attempts to illustrate. I subscribe to Prevention magazine which is a very good source of health and nutrition information. This months copy, Feb 2001, has a full page add by America's peanut farmers showing two slices of white bread, both covered with peanut butter, the caption reads, more or less, 'peanuts are a good source of the B vitamin, also known as folic acid...consuming sufficient amounts of folic acid...may help prevent neural tube birth defects.' - This is a scare tactic! The food combination offered has huge quantities of the antinutrients sugar and white flour and plenty of vegetable fat but only a tiny amount of peanuts. The magazine although one of the few periodicals that has good health information, to stay afloat, must make money and thus must accept these sorts of advertisements. You wonder why Americans are getting fatter? It's because they are being misslead. Read this book to learn more and to get some great ideas about how to improve your diet and there-by your health. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I cannot add much more to the positive reviews that indicate how the book clearly identifies the negative affects of sugar (and refined and processed foods, by extension) on the human body. The book delves into the detrimental developmental, mental/psychiatric, and physiological affects that sugar has on the human body. Just a few points that I would like to point out to potential readers of this book:
1) Some of the very few negative reviews point out that the book is a one-track, narrowly focused diatribe against refined sugar (The author very clearly makes a distinction between natural carbohydrates and natural sugars as opposed to refined processed sugars and refined carbohydrates which is something that cannot be overlooked). I thoroughly disagree. There is a consistent and very powerful underlying theme throughout the book… the fact that throughout history the food industry and the medical/ pharmaceutical industry have monetarily thrived off of each other at the expense of public health and human welfare. (and in my opinion, they knowingly did so and do so). This is not a conspiratorial left-winged angle on the theme of the book that the author pushes on the reader, but rather a theme that is supported throughout the European and American sugar history. The author uses this richly detailed historical backdrop to reinforce not only the perils and hazards of sugar, but to also provide perhaps an explanation (and motive) as to why and how refined sugar has become so pervasive in society. As is often the case, greed and monetary interests provide the very motives for the medical establishment's "looking the other way" in the face of overwhelming evidence pointing to the health hazards of sugar. The author leverages these historical actions effectively in telling the "story" and providing the facts. Admittedly, some of the facts are wholly anecdotal in nature, but nevertheless they serve the purpose to reinforce the overall theme of the book. At the core, this is the food industry "lobbying" for the pharmaceutical industry's interests, and vise versa. Consider this:
A. Cholesterol free foods, fat free foods - Cholesterol lowering drugs. Health issues: Good fats (fish oil, Omega 9's) totally eliminated. Absence of these fats induces cardiovascular problems. Cholesterol in and of itself is not damaging to arteries and endothelial function, but the absence healthy fats and statins cause a host of other cardiovascular issues.
B. Polished refined white rice - Vitamin B1 derived from whole grain rice (they initially were able to market B1; there is no money to be made from B1 anymore so they have moved on). The author spends a chapter asking why was it removed in the first place? "How to Complicate Simplicity" all for the sake of money and greed.
C. Refined suga - Psychiatry for a host of mental illnesses. Insulin. Allergy industry. All very profitable
D. MSG, food additives - Psychiatry and pharmaceuticals for a host of neurological disorders
E. Transfatty acids for fat free food - Cardiovascular and vascular medications to deal with the problems transfatty acids cause. Transfats were substituted for natural fats all in the name of low fat heart healthy foodstuffs! The food and pharmaceutical industries making money for each other.
The pharmaceutical and established medical industry have one motive to look the other way when the perils of refined carbohydrates/sugars are discussed: Money and Greed. These "foods" supply their care industries with patients… "How to complicate simplicity"
2) One must also keep in mind that the book was written originally in 1976. Since then, many of the medical disease states presented in the book have been thoroughly researched, studied, and clinically proven to be caused by refined carbohydrates and sugars. Naysayers are the pharmaceutical industry and the processed food industry. Greed.
3) The book in not meant to be a scientific double blind clinical study on the perils of refined sugar, but rather presents the reader with historical and anecdotal facts that point to one conclusion: the damaging effects of refined sugar on the human body and mind.
4) Another negative review pointed out that carbohydrates are necessary for proper human metabolic function. The review incorrectly states that the book bears relevance only to people who are insulin resistant or diabetic. The whole point of the book is preventative food medicine. Once you are insulin resistant or diabetic, the damage has been done and is very difficult to reverse. The book points out that the fastest way to do the damage (to the adrenals, insulin receptive cells, pancreas, etc.) is through the con- sumption of refined sugar. The author (even way back in 1976) was also very clear to provide a distinction between processed refined carbohydrates (focusing on the worst of them, refined sugar) and natural carbohydrates (pure unrefined unpolished brown rice as opposed to processed refined polished white rice, for example). Natural carbs are an essential part of a well balanced diet.
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Bernard Chapin (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
This book is extremely helpful to those who are wishing to quit eating sugar. Almost immediately, the pages strengthen your resolve and heighten your motivation. That sugar is a factor in our general societal health decline, and that it adds to our collective physiological and psychological woes, is indisputable. Many of Duffy's aggregate claims are correct, but Sugar Blues is far more a polemic than that it is serious scholarship. Duffy writes to indict and persuade rather than to clarify "gray areas." That didn't bother me though as I was able to take it for what it was and appreciate it. For those looking for a more erudite discussion regarding the subject, they will have to look elsewhere. |
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An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-11 00:00>
I just want to echo the fact that this book will definitely help you to understand the history of sugar and its real affect on the body in a way that will make you want to kick the habit! I am thrilled to have come upon this information. For this I gave it 5 stars! However, the author, seemingly a vegetarian Buddhist, is very angry in the writing of this book. I can't say I blame him in a way, and yet, there is a lack of charity pervasive throughout the book. Christian forgiveness could go along way here as an added bonus to improve mind, body and spirit to an even higher level. Also, I too am disappointed that he does not draw more upon the findings of Dr. Weston A Price. I realize that Dufty aligns himself with more of an eastern mindset, but still... The discussion of vegetable fats and meat are not explored properly - Prices' findings, in fact, are ignored. This doesn't seem all together honest. That being said, read the book for what IS said about SUGAR, the worlds number one killer! |
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