Sugar
Blues
by William F. Duffy
Reviews
Synopsis
The classic, best-selling exposé
on the dangers of sugar reveals how this commonly ingested ingredient in
countless foods is highly addictive and causes a host of medical problems
from depression to coronary thrombosis. Reissue. PW.
Customer Comments
Darcy Chase from Portland,
Maine, October 8, 1999
Really makes you think about what you
eat every day!
I am not quite finished with this book,
but ready I would say that I recommend it. The author gives a lot of historical
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 healthy 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
Duffy 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!
A reader from Seattle, WA,
August 24, 1999
Excellent book for content and history...
Read this book if you want to understand
how refined sugars and refined foods destroy one's health. You'll learn
more than you want to know about refined sugar, one of the great evils
of our society.
valleeix@usa.net from Wheat
Ridge, CO USA, July 29, 1999
One of the best reviews of the sugar
industry
This is one of the best and revealing books
on the sugar industry and the government connections I have read.
A reader from Rochester,
Michigan, July 11, 1999
love this book hate sugar now
I knew I need to cut sugar out but this
really opened my eyes sugar has been the down fall of america, england
everywhere. I can't believe sugar has been killing people for thousands
of years and we still use it. Read it learn about what sugar has done to
our country. To the world.
Tevis Jacobs (tjacobs@vorpal.net)
from San Francisco, California, June 15, 1999
A diamond in the rough: Poorly written
Vital information
This book shows that numerous ills of refined
sugar (sucrose). It is an extremely important book because it represents
the first step in a realization that sucrose is much worse for you than
the billion-dollar sugar industry wants you to believe. There are very
important statistics and valid points hidden among a text which is not
very cohesive. It is rather like stream of consciousness in its style and
almost paranoid in its feel, but it remains an important read for beginning
to unravel the sugar myth.
A reader from Arkansas,
May 31, 1999
This book will never allow you to view
sugar the same
"Sugar Blues" will change you outlook
on sugar forever. It opened my eyes to pay attention to what I put in my
body. This book is hard to read at times and does appear to be very opinionated,
but it had a great impact on my life. I have been eliminating sugar from
my diet and I have never felt better. I had gained a lot of weight during
the last year and had little energy. I have made a conscious effort to
put to use the tips in this book and I have a new lease on life. My energy
seems to go up every day. If you like this book another that I have read
is: "Get the Sugar Out". It includes
a few sugarless recipes as well. Please read this book if you are having
ANY health problems or a low energy level. This will change your life forever.
A reader from Rochester,
Vermont, May 24, 1999
A sledgehammer of truth
In SUGAR BLUES, William Duffy 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 millennia.
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 Duffy
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 Duffy
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.
* * *
People DO have various problems with life.
Instead of naming and redefining these problems as various "mental diseases",
and labeling people with them, as is currently done within the psychiatric
community, these problems with life and living are best understood and
addressed outside of the traditional psychiatric paradigm. Why?
Because psychiatric "treatments" such as ECT, lobotomy, and powerful psychotropic
drugs are barbaric, based upon severe faulty scientific methodology, and
quite simply, harm people.
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