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Sugar Blues (Paperback)
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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Author: William Dufty
Publisher: Warner Books; Reissue edition
Pub. in: March, 1986
ISBN: 0446343129
Pages: 256
Measurements: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00519
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0446343121
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- Awards & Credential -
The classic #1 health bestseller with 1.6 million copies in print |
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In Sugar Blues, William Dufty doesn't just lift the historical mask on sugar, he pulverizes it. I have read other books detailing the biological havoc that refined sugar wreaks on the body, but this is the first book I've seen that places sugar in a historical framework and charts its path of destruction over thousands of years, through the rise and fall of civilizations right up to present-day corporate and government duplicity. The results are truly eye-opening, if not shocking. If you thought sugar was just one of life's sweet little nuisances, think again. It has been one of the major levers for the enslavement and control of human beings for millenia.
The portrait of the historical drama of sugar is this book's strength. Sugar Blues does have minor weaknesses, however. It's lacking in science, which these days is important to have when challenging the status quo. It also lacks a systematic argument, the chapters often meandering from subject to subject (the chapter on sugar in cigarettes, for instance, ends with a discussion of sugar's role in auto accidents). Finally, the book sputters to its conclusion as Dufty provides a final chapter on recipes that frankly put me to sleep. He should have stuck to his original purpose here and delivered a final, clinching argument. With a new edition, all of these minor wrinkles could be addressed.
That said, this book's value is nonetheless extraordinary. Sugar is so entrenched in most people's lifestyles that it is practically invisible, taken for granted. But if it has caused half the damage Dufty claims it has, then everyone should do themselves a favor and read his book. It doesn't end there; I know from personal struggle that sugar is incredibly hard to kick. But the first step in any change is knowing you have to make it.
(From quoting an American reader)
Target readers:
General readers, but especially good for the health conscious people and those who are wishing to quit eating sugar.
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This book was wonderfully interesting. Sugar Blues opened a pandoras box on the topic of sugar. It looked at sugar in relation to its philosophy and causes of disease and illness. It takes you through many centuaries of sugar consumption, from the years of troubled souls and bewitchment up until the modern problems of our world such as hyperactivity and schizophrenia. This book is a must for any parent, naturopath, nutritionst or health care practioner.
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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. |
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! |
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. |
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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