A must read if you are interested in losing weight the healthy way without ever feeling hungry. Do you want to understand how food mainly sugar is processed by your body. Sweet poison exposes one of the great health scourges of our time and offers a wealth of practical and accessible information on how to avoid. How sugar, not cocaine, is one of the most addictive and dangerous substances. But most of us would do well to lighten up on the sweet stuff. Such is the force behind the concept of sugar being harmful that this book embodies, that i have given up sugar instantly. Sweet poison by david gillespie, 9780718179076, available at book. The viral success of his lecture, though, has little to do with lustigs impressive credentials and far more with the persuasive case he makes that sugar is a toxin or a poison. We dont need to go cold turkey on sugar, health experts tell webmd. Learn how to break your addiction with sugar for life gillespie, david. I bought both in kindle format but was so impressed that i wanted to own them in paperback. By the mid 19th century, europeans and americans had come to regard refined sugar as a. Learn how to break your addiction with sugar for life.
We also dig into alternatives to eating sugar, publish an everexpanding range of sugar free recipes and get to the bottom of the current research on sugar and sugar. The second part describes many processed foods which are not available in germany. So, just to make sure i go on losing weight, i decided to read pure, white, and deadly, over and over again. The sweet poison quit plan is the longawaited how to supplement to the. Sugar consumption in england increased by 1,500 percent between the 18th and 19th centuries. Refined sugar the sweetest poison of all by william dufty. This new view of sugar could change the advice that doctors and government health officials give about eating the sweet stuff. Would recommend this book to anyone out there who is complaining about. Every book recommends avoiding processed sugar and processed foods but it wasnt until i read exactly what i was doing to my body by consuming it that i could. Packed with reader anecdotes and lists to help you organise your sugarfree life, this book presents one.
Sweet poison, why sugar makes us fat by david gillespie. What is left consists of pure, refined carbohydrates. If you read the first book there are just a few new points. Refined sugar has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. Yet sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine, and americans are consuming 152 pounds of. If i were to nitpick, its that the book is written almost as if its only going to be read. His companion book the sweet poison quit plan also has loads of sugar free recipes, all easy. If i were to nitpick, its that the book is written almost as if its only going to be read by.
William dufty described the sugar issue in his book sugar blues, published in 1975. Free ebooklet so whats the deal with refined sugar. Dr martin classified refined sugar as a poison because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins and minerals. If anything can persuade you to cut down on the evil white powder, this. Lustigs hope is that the information is considered as the u.
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