Seize Sugar Blues Curated By William Dufty Format Brochure

though this book was writtenyears ago, much of what the author discusses in his book is just as pertinent today as it was then, if not more, In William Dufty's Sugar Blues, the author goes to great length to discuss the history of sugar and how such a seemingly innocent substance could bring about so much damage.
This book is really a wake up call for a lot of people who think that weight gain is simply a matter of gaining pounds instead of a symptom of greater problems that are going on in the body.
Although the author's views sometimes seem extreme, the logic and science is inescapably true, This book has proven to be an invaluable asset to me, and I plan to share it with other people, emocionada de ter conseguido ler um livro de cabo a rabo depois de tanto tempo sem conseguir terminar nada,

a primeira publicação desse livro é dee dá aflição de ler pensando que se passaram quaseanos e a gente continua sem olhar com seriedade pra essa questão.
sobre valores tortos, alimentação, saúde, imperialismo e como matar a população mundial pela barriga, This book basically outlines the history of sugar and some roles it is thought to have played in some fairly significant historical events, I would classify it more as historical than nutritional, If you are wanting to cut back or eliminate sugar but are lacking the motivation, . . this book will do it, For me, I personally find that I am much more emotionally stable if I stay away from the stuff, . . so this book has helped strengthen my resolve, First published in thes, this book has even more relevance today, Dufty provides a comprehensive look at sugar by tracing its effects on various civilizationsaddiction, exploitation, illness, among others, His statistics are shocking, andyears later, far worse, A real incentive to get off of sugar, Lots of information, often presented with amusing sarcasm, A book about the trajectory of sugar in its way to our mouths, Because of its addictive potential and consequently political interests, this substance, that has little from its original plant, made its way to most industrialized products we eat, From ketchup to oatmeal, it is everywhere, regardless of all the negative impacts on our health, A more accurate title for this book would have been "History of sugar and is myths", Lots of interesting historical data but very little on the everyday applications of removing sugar from your diet, It's all common sense though, so if you flip through the pages, you can find some relevant information, This was a bizarre exercise in viewing the entirety of history through a random lens, In this case the writer explains that everything from the fall of entire empires to schizophrenia were all caused by sugar, I would say it's worth reading, though, if only cause it's always good to be reminded: sugar bad, Healthy stuff good. The end. D

Seriously. I didn't give this book an F for one reason it helped me to eat a little less sugar than I used to and to buy unrefined sugar and flour at the grocery store now.
A little change like that may make a big difference, We'll have to find out,

I was recommended this book by a friend she told me, "If you read this book, you'll never want to eat sugar again, This book teaches you how to eat correctly and how to get rid of sugar in your life, " She was kinda partially right, It helped me to give up more sugar than normal, . . but it didn't teach out to eat correctly at all, I wish that this book would have given more of a guideline about all types of sugars ie, honey, splenda which wasn't on the market yet, stevia, unrefined sugar, natural sugar from fruits, It made me wonder do I have to give all of those types of sugar up as well Or only unrefined sugar What am I to do

The firstpages was mostly a history of how sugar changed the world for the worse not the better.
Actually, it was more like the whole book minus the last chapter or two was about that, And then the last chapter told you what to eat "natural foods" what what he called it but it was all the unnatural

things that are found only in Japan and overseas.
What is natural about that I have to learn to eat the foods that are around me everyday, . . I have to learn how to adapt to what I am given I can't go and search out these tiny little specialty stores especially while I am living in Warsaw and try to find these weird foods.
Eating healthy should be all about baby steps, about finding a way to change habits and make them lifestyle changes one step at a time, . . but this book didn't teach ANY of that,

On a side note, the author did state that if you go a week or a month or longer without sugar notice that you don't flagellate, I experimented. It's true. That reason alone earns him a D instead of an F, . . I now know how to get rid of unwanted gas, This is a phenomenal book, filled with unique facts and history difficult to find in one place, Essentially, processed sugar is a drug and has always been a drug, The USA suffers from an obesity epidemic because corporations in the earlys discovered and all adopted the "Bliss Point" for their foods, using added sugars and corn syrup to sweeten their product and feed an addiction.
The facts in this book will shock you to your core, Dufty's sprawling, inflammatory writ of a rant is disorganized and preachy, with a colloquial tone, liberal manipulation of fact, and touch of fanaticism that tempts the reader to dismiss it entirely.


BUT, it is also a punishing and deserved slap in the face for our sociallyselected ignorance about sugar, The historical, economic, and chemical truths about sugar refinement and it's effects on us, the overconsumers, were old news at the time of this Sugar Blues's publication in the mids.
Yet somehow, the larger picture of cause and especially effect can still seem revelatory today, This is a topic about which we as a larger culture have chosen, dangerously, not to learn,

Read this book, but with the appropriate grain of salt, Laugh when fact gets pulled into the deep end of extreme conjecture, but consider honestly those points rooted in any truth at all even the crazysounding ones,

Morton's table salt really does contain dextrose, Meditate for a moment on that fact and its implications, Then, seek out more and better sources, This is one mans saga to explain every single feature about sugar that ought to ensure you never touch the stuff again, It would seem that a whole slew of the worlds problems can be traced to one source of strife: sugar, It is the cheapest fuel to pick up the white mans burden, Because it is manufactured in such a way that provides an abundant amount of caloric energy for little cost, and its services as a refined crop have so much use in preservation of foodit would seem to be a miracle.
Except, according to William Dufty, sugar carries the weight of an insurmountable depth of problems as well as a corrupt and all but invincible industry driving its projective uses into the future of our dumb, prediabetic world.


Essentially the first half of the book is devoted to how the sugar industry was made into an empire after sugars inception into the Western world, As foreign explorers came upon the cane in the New World, they excitedly took to it and transferred it across the oceans, to Europe and Asia, to exploit its possibilities.
Dufty goes into how lucrative the sugar trade became, owing its success to mass consumption and production on a fairly easy to manage scale but details how the health of the entire sugarconsuming world would fall with each scrumptious bite.
He essentially calls out a world too stupid to understand that its cheap diet had begun costing everyone their health, I cant put it in a simpler way, His overall emphasis is on how the powersthatbe killed wise men and "witches" and quack medical experts and nutritionists who attempt to decry the beneficial effects of sugar, because the strength of the industry was so implemental to the growth of progress like the East India Trading Company and the coming of the FDA, to deny the advent of sugar was to deny the kingdom itself.
Sugar grew like a big white orifice and swallowed the whole lot of a natural world ingrained,

The second half of the book goes into even richer detail of how the sugar industry in the last century completely deformed any rudimentary ethical concern it could have for the general publics healthfor the purpose of continual expansion of this trade.


He contends that problems like hypoglycemia, diabetes and obesity were either founded or deeply exacerbated by the refined sugar and that fascinations like vitamincounts became a craze as a default of its negligence to provide real nutrition.
He reflects numerous people not understanding hypoglycemia and the importance of blood sugar levels, trying to control their weakness by eating candy bars, People were just really dumb, and still are, and don't know why they can not control their bodies,

These sugarpushers will have you believe that sugar is an essential component of the human body, which is true, Dufty explains the difference between glucose blood sugar, a natural component of how the body makes its own energy, and sucrose cane or beet sugar, which is refined sugar lacking actual nutrients.
When they say it is essential, “how it is oxidized to produce energy, how it is metabolized to produce warmth, and so on, Theyre talking about glucose, of course, which is manufactured in our bodies, However, one is led to believe that the manufacturers are talking about the sucrose which is made in their refineries, When the word sugar can mean the glucose in your blood as well as the sucrose in your CocaCola, its great for the sugarpushers but its rough on everybody else.
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“Pure is a favorite adjective of the sugar pushers because it means one thing to the chemists and another thing to the ordinary mortals, When honey is labeled pure, this means that it is in its natural state stolen directly from the bees that made it, no adulteration with sucrose to stretch it and no harmful chemical residues which men may have sprayed on the flowers.
It does not mean that the honey is free from minerals like iodine, iron, calcium, phosphorus, or multiple vitamins, So effective is the purification process which sugar cane and beets undergo in the refineries, that sugar ends up as chemically pure as the morphine or the heroin a chemist has on his laboratory shelves.
What nutritional virtue this abstract chemical purity represents, the sugar pushers never tell us, ”

Rather, the refining process of sugar cuts out every potential nutritious value that the raw cane might give, They basically scour the crop for its shell, a carbohydrate whose only value is a caloric intake, Then, all: “excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids, These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs, ”

“Incomplete carbohydrate metabolism results in the formation of toxic metabolite such as pyruvic acid and abnormal sugars containingcarbon atoms, Pyruvic acid accumulates in the brain and nervous system and the abnormal sugars in the red blood cellsinterfere with the respiration of cellsgenerating the beginning of degenerative disease,” such as diabetes, obesity, coronary thrombosis, tooth decay, diseases of the gums, stomach trouble, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, peptic ulcers and diverticular disease.


But because the industry is so imbued with its own success, there really is no turning back the fortune, How do they allow a product that should be replaced from our status quo and made obsolete as a food item prosper

Dufty quotes Paul Hawkens in a rather elegant musing, that “the more you see a product advertised, the more of a ripoff it is.
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Essentially, they have to make it work:

“Coke executives have learned from extensive research that young America is searching for what is real, meaningful in this plastic world, and one bright ad executive comes up with the idea that it is Coke.
Yep, Coke is the real thing and this between the age of six and nineteen until their teeth are rotting just like their parents did, ”

The result: A centuries old game of semantics, A teatime with the madhatter, shoveling lumps of sugar through the logic of twists and turns,

He gives an excerpt from a case proposed against the sugar industry, a Senator Schweiker vs, the American Medical Association. The tale is in effect, a semantics argument over what defines an “antinutrient:” The AMA wants to say that if a food product is not antagonistic to the body, it cannot be considered antinutrient.
Sugar is a carbohydrate which the body already processes, with its own glucose,

By saying that carbohydrates are the enemy, it is denying a necessary function of the body, Dufty comments that it is “misleading to talk about natural carbohydrates such as grains interchangeably with refined carbohydrates such as sugar, ”

Schweiker, argues that refined sugar, because it is unnatural, works as an antagonistic agent in displacing metabolic energies, The AMAs defense: “after all, exercise increases the need for certain vitamins, That doesnt mean that exercise is antinutrient,

It is a courtship of a mad hatter, They run the dialogue into the ground, until they dismiss for time and the settlement is broken up, The AMA wins.

It is unbelievable to what lengths the pushing of sugar goes, He talks about a man named Dr, Wiley who before the FDA chaired the Bureau of Chemistry, The Bureau of Chemistry championed the Pure Food and Drug Laws by initiating a group called The Poison Squad, a number of volunteers who would test a product before it was put out into the public.
Because of lobbyists however, the Bureau of Chemistry was replaced by the FDA and the GRAS list, Generally Regarded As Safe, This list takes substances off the market only after it has been proven unsafe, The process of denying products by proper testing was forfeited to an innocentuntilprovenguilty standoffishness, Because the process of testing proved to be too much for sugar to not buckle under the pressure, they were sacrificed for the sake of a bureau that will allow just about anything to be passed under health code.
The sugar industry is so powerful, that even the elements whom we have elected to protect our sanctity are lobbied by a force that has to careen through prospective dangers in order to propitiate the claim that sugar makes on our lives.
In other words, let the whole world be dotted in gumdrops, Baby, we're in Candyland!

You have to realize I can not sum up this book so easily in,letters, There is just too much information, But what is really magnificent about this book is it shows just how ignorant the public is about what they are putting into their bodies, Go look at a label in your kitchen, More than half. Nay,of your food items contain sugar, I bet your sweet ass i'm right! Sugar is everywhere around us and it would be absurd to deny that the health crisis we are experiencing today is not in some part due to a complete divergence from natural food consumption to refined inorganic replacements.


There is a fine section of this book where the same Dr Wiley almost convinces Teddy Roosevelt of the dangers complicated within mass sugar consumption, This would have been a huge step in the right direction, getting an executive decision on repealing some sugar standard, But when he says the wrong thing, telling Roosevelt that saccharin is just as bad as sugar, leveling the president whose huberis could not admit that he himself had been doing anything wrong Apparently, Roosevelt took to saccharin as a dietary summplement Roosevelt says, “Anyone who says saccharin is injurious to health is an idiot.
” The case was closed.

It's fascinating how stubborn some people are,

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