A Telegraph Top 10 Diet Book Pure White & Deadly by John Yudkin is a must-read for those concerned with how much sugar we consume every day. Sugar. It's killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? In 1972 when British scientist John Yudkin first proved that sugar was bad for our health he was ignored by the majority of the medical profession & rubbished by the food industry. We should have heeded his warning. Today 1 in 4 adults in the UK are overweight. There is an epidemic of obese six month olds around the globe. Sugar consumption has tripled since World War II. Using everyday language & a range of scientific evidence Professor Yudkin explores the ins & out of sugar from the different types
- is brown sugar really better than white?
- to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods & how it is damaging our health. Brought up-to-date by childhood obesity expert Dr Robert Lustig M.D. his classic expose on the hidden dangers of sugar is essential reading for anyone interested in their health the health of their children & the health of modern society. [A] valiant.. .attempt to warn us against our lust for sucrose". (British Medical Journal). "A medical classic". (London Metropolitan University). " Arguably the leading nutritionist of his time". (Guardian). " Worldwide around 180million tonnes of refined sugar is produced each year & the UK market alone is worth nearly GBP1billion. Little wonder that no one listened to eminent nutritionist Professor John Yudkin when he called sugar 'pure white & deadly' back in 1972 & quite rightly warned of the links between excessive consumption & heart disease". (Catherine Collins Principal Dietician St George's Hospital). John Yudkin (8 August 1910
- 12 July 1995) was a British physiologist & nutritionist whose books include This Slimming Business Eat Well Slim Well & This Nutrition Business. He became internationally famous with his book Pure White & Deadly first published in 1972 & was one of the first scientists to claim that sugar was a major cause of obesity & heart disease. Robert H. Lustig M.D. has spent the past sixteen years treating childhood obesity & studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system & metabolism. He is the Director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen & Child Health Program & also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society. His You Tube video lecture Sugar: The Bitter Truth has received over two million hits he recently appeared on the BBC 2 documentary The Men Who Made Us Fat & his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar Processed Food Obesity & Disease is being published in Autumn 2012."


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