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Sugar Blues Mass Market Paperback – March 17, 1986

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It's a prime ingredient in countless substances from cereal to soup, from cola to coffee. Consumed at the rate of one hundred pounds for every American every year, it's as addictive as nicotine -- and as poisonous. It's sugar. And "Sugar Blues", inspired by the crusade of Hollywood legend Gloria Swanson, is the classic, bestselling expose that unmasks our generation's greatest medical killer and shows how a revitalizing, sugar-free diet can not only change lives, but quite possibly save them.
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  6. ISBN-10
    0446343129
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Balance; Reissue edition (March 17, 1986)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446343129
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446343121
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.2 x 0.85 x 6.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,213 ratings

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William F. Duffy

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Eleanora Fagan, who later took the name BILLIE HOLIDAY, was born April 7, 1915, and died when she was just forty-four, on July 17, 1959. Coauthor WILLIAM DUFTY (1916-2002) was a music enthusiast, freelance writer for the New York Post, and Gloria Swanson's last husband.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book readable, interesting, and important. They say it has valuable information about sugar and provides fascinating history. Readers describe the book as enlightening, eye-opening, and mind-boggling.

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Customers find the book to be a good read, interesting, and important. They also say it strengthens their resolve and heightens motivation. Readers mention the story is fact-based and an overwhelming experience.

"The book was delivered to me in great condition. Reading it was a delight. So interesting to read about the spread of sugar on the world." Read more

"...A good book to start with; there is much more scientific data available now on what sugar does to the body..." Read more

"...It is easy reading and interesting.................!" Read more

"...Made a great book for our book club. Everyone could benefit from reading this book and knowing how it’s become so prevalent in our society." Read more

78 customers mention "Informational"70 positive8 negative

Customers find the book informative and excellent. They say it has valuable information about sugar and how it was distributed. Readers also mention the book is full of truth and inspires them to kick the sugar habit.

"...The history of sugar is really important in that it makes you understand why the health industry is on of the most profitable industries in the..." Read more

"great info" Read more

"...Natural sugars are obviously natural (i.e. fruits) but the amount of added sugar in products that's increased over time explains a lot of why people..." Read more

"This book is a good read on the history of sugar. By the end, I had stopped using white sugar without even thinking about it...." Read more

27 customers mention "Enlightenedness"27 positive0 negative

Customers find the book enlightening, interesting, and topical. They say it's eye-opening, mind-boggling, and holds their interest. Readers also mention it's a life-changing classic and still important and relevant today.

"...about how much sugar is in tobacco products was suggestive and eye-opening; he makes a suggestion that lung cancer is potentiated more by the sugar..." Read more

"...It is easy reading and interesting.................!" Read more

"...Since I stopped all that, I have more energy and my motivation for life is great!!! No more "whoa is me."..." Read more

"This book should be a must read for everyone. It is very insightful and if you want to be healthy you need to know what an awful drug refined sugar..." Read more

6 customers mention "Moodiness"6 positive0 negative

Customers find the book's moodiness information helpful. They mention they feel better and have more energy than ever. Readers also say they have lost weight and see a drastic improvement in their moodiness within days.

"...Never felt better or had more energy than anytime in my life. Truth!!" Read more

"...No sugar, no anxiety and anger. This is one of the top 5 books I've ever read...." Read more

"...Bloating gone, painful periods gone. lost weight. Reading the book encourages my journey to get healthy...." Read more

"...I lost 30 pounds in three months, and felt a lot better...." Read more

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"...Not an easy read for 2 reasons: the mass produced printing font is small and the intense historical prospective jumps from century to century and..." Read more

"...The poor little book is paperback with small font and so maybe not a delightful reading experience--but the content includes hundreds of years of..." Read more

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Happy with my purchase. Great to be able to find a second hand copy without going traipsing around many second hand stores. Interesting book, taking my time reading it. So many references and pearls that I’ve been stopping to research finding out about others in history that sounded the alarm, 200, 300 years ago... I’m only up to chapter 6 ... it’s a very interesting book so far... the reference list in the back coupled with google searches has been a big eye opener...
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Luke Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2024
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The book was delivered to me in great condition. Reading it was a delight. So interesting to read about the spread of sugar on the world.
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Gustenheimer
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for every parent who really cares about their health and their childrens.
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Probably the most informative book I have read in my 75 years on this planet. And I am an avid reader. People think we have a drug problem in this country? We do. And it's not what we're led to believe. I read this book when it first came out in the 70's and have re-read it at least 3 or 4 times. The drug problem we have in this country is SUGAR and we are all addicted to it. Sugar is more addicting than cocaine. If you think not, try doing without it completely for a few days. I mean NO sugar. It is in everything. Read the labels on everything you buy. Sugar sugar sugar, is in everything. So, eliminate it completely. You will be surprised how much better you feel after a few weeks on NO sugar. Try it if you think you can. What amazes me is the number of people that gave the book a poor rating. Many just read a chapter and said it was boring and threw it away. Too bad because if they are really interested in getting healthy they should have read the entire book. Granted, the first few chapters talk about the history of sugar and how it all started. The more you read however, makes you understand why over half the country is probably just heading for full blow diabetes. The history of sugar is really important in that it makes you understand why the health industry is on of the most profitable industries in the country. Why it takes weeks sometime just to get an appointment to see a doctor. I have Narcolepsy and have been taking Ritalin since the early 80's. I did the Adkins diet which "completely" eliminates sugar. After just a month or two with NO sugar, I didn't even need the Ritalin anymore. Never felt better or had more energy than anytime in my life. Truth!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars great
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2024
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Goat and Dog
4.0 out of 5 stars Great political and historical expose of "big sugar" and what it does to the little guy
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This book was written in the 70's, and I wish I had read it back then. I am an avowed sugar addict who is trying to amass so much information about sugar's detriments that I'm forced to give it up. To an extent, I'm slowly getting there, but it is a constant battle. Dufty's book, although it is not a scientific work, is an astute observation of advertising and political strategies that have allowed the infiltration of this dangerous substance into our lives, until it is in absolutely EVERYTHING. The section about how much sugar is in tobacco products was suggestive and eye-opening; he makes a suggestion that lung cancer is potentiated more by the sugar than the tobacco (using rough figures of lung cancer overseas and in the US). While this is not a scientifically-supported statement, it is worth looking into. Most of the book is a historical and political analysis of sugar's place in the growth of the world's consumer culture, stretching back into the days of the Crusades, when the Europeans wanted some of that Saracen sugar and would fight to get it. He points the finger at Fannie Farmer for suggesting that a little sugar added to just about every recipe would improve it. Now, 30-some years after he writes this, sugar (or HFCS, which wasn't invented til the 70's) is in nearly everything we buy at the store. It is more ubiquitous than spices like onion and garlic, which are added to just about every savory item in can or box or packet. His work is prescient in many ways, but also shows how constant the attitude of big commercial concerns are in their fight against inconvenient truths. A good book to start with; there is much more scientific data available now on what sugar does to the body (a lecture by Dr. Lustig on how closely the effects of fructose on the body jibe with the now-medically recognized "metabolic syndrome" is instructive). A good book to start becoming informed about the killer white crystals in your cupboard.
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James T. Marble
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2024
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A must read if you are worried about the damage sugar causes.
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Judy Burby
5.0 out of 5 stars Very detailed
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
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Lot of small print makes hard to read but lots of info
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Kathi RWT
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this for the things you never knew
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2024
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I read this every couple years to reinforce my determination to eat healthy. A review won't do justice.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Conclusion is right but for all the wrong reasons
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2010
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I love this book and I've read it many times in the last twenty-seven years. I actually am committed to not consuming sugar for the rest of my life. That being said, the majority of William Dufty's arguments against sugar are more than fallacious, they are completely unscientific. I've just purchased yet another copy of Sugar Blues to replace one that got lost in moving and I'm laughing out loud at how ridiculous his arguments are. Some of them include: Smoking tobacco doesn't cause cancer, it's the sugar in the cigarettes that does it. Smoking is actually better for you than eating candy. Eating protein or complex carbs with sugar causes "fermentation" in the GI tract, causing the formation of poisons, because digestion is solely reliant on enzymes. Ulcers are caused by eating sugar. Diabetes (he makes no distinction between Type I and Type II, which are completely different diseases and only share similar symptoms) can be treated (or even cured) completely by eating a macrobiotic diet of brown rice, sea vegetables, fish and umeboshi plum. His specific anecdote of George, the boy who contracts diabetes at 15 in the 1950s (presumably a juvenile diabetic) and is cured by eating a macrobiotic diet is absurd.

Mr. Dufty's arguments make two things clear: that he had very little in the way of a scientific education and that this book is extremely dated in what science it refers to. Dufty has next to no understanding of how digestion takes place, no understanding that there are billions of bacteria and other organisms in the digestive system, that fermentation is a normal part of human digestion, that gastric motility has little do with sucrose. This book was written a decade before the discovery that ulcers are caused by a bacteria called Heliobacter pylori. A more significant problem for the polemic he proposes is his lack of understanding about carbohydrates in general. He believes that refined sugars alone are the sum evil of modernity and bizarrely believes that honey lacks all of the evils of refined sugar because it's "natural" when honey has only trace minerals and vitamins to recommend it over table sugar and contains high levels of fructose, which the body converts immediately to triglycerides. He claims over and over that none of the problems presented by eating refined sugars are present in whole grains despite the fact that a bite of whole grain bread that is chewed up and spat on glucose detecting paper registers as having as much glucose present as eating sucrose itself and similar effects on blood sugar levels.

Dufty's claim is that all people and diabetics especially can do well on a high carbohydrate diet consisting of whole grains, principally brown rice. The glycemic index and the last 30 years have shown that is just not the case. Whole grains have vitamins and minerals but eventually, they all boil down nutritionally to starches and sugars and ironically, it's the USDA which Dufty labeled part of the "diseasestablishment" which is now pushing 11 servings of whole grains a day as the US population gets fatter and more diabetic every year. Dufty's obvious infatuation with Japanese culture and the macrobiotic diet explains his dietary advice. He must not have developed much insulin resistance in his lifetime to have been able to eat that way without it affecting him badly. The majority of us in the 21st century don't have that luxury any more. One wonders how theories of paleolithic diet would have registered with Mr. Dufty.

Sugar is bad for us. All of us would be better off never eating sucrose again, without exception. That part William Dufty got right.
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Yusuf
2.0 out of 5 stars BAD PRINT, Book is GREAT.
Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates on July 8, 2024
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Wonderful book every one should read. This one had a very bad print quality.
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Anna Jansen
5.0 out of 5 stars Extrem interessantes Buch
Reviewed in Germany on November 27, 2023
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Wahnsinnig interessant. Buch ist eher historisch ausgelegt. Der Autor macht deutlich, wie die Verbreitung von Zucker die Menschheit erkranken ließ.

Inhaltlich auch viel über Gesundheit, aber wer medizinische und biochemische Details will sollte lieber "Die bittere Wahrheit über Zucker" lesen, dass Buch ist aktueller.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
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Elisabete Ortiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente leitura para pessoas que querem ter melhor qualidade de vida, preservar saúde
Reviewed in Brazil on June 21, 2020
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Recomendo para quem tem se sentido cansado(a), com muitas dores no corpo, inflamações, falta de animo para tudo, elimine o açúcar de sua dieta e você vai sentir a diferença.
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colleen
5.0 out of 5 stars The book arrived in excellent shape. It is a fantastic read and I've ...
Reviewed in Canada on June 6, 2017
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The book arrived in excellent shape. It is a fantastic read and I've learned so much about the history of sugar and how it is such a huge addiction. It threatens my health which is why I purchased the book in the first place. I have more energy since I've cut down on my sugar intake especially refined sugar. What an eye opener!
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