Pure, White and Deadly

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"The new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes and other killers." First published as "Sweet and Dangerous" in the USA by Peter H. Wyden 1972. First published under the present title in Great Britain by Davis-Poynter 1972. This revised and expanded edition first published by Viking 1986. Published in Penguin Books 1988. Author (1910-1995) was a fluoridation advocate, see pp.128-129. Pure, White and Deadly - Front Cover......Page 1 Author Biography......Page 3 Also by John Yudkin......Page 4 Title Page......Page 5 Dedication; Printer's Imprint......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Introduction......Page 9 1. What's so different about sugar?......Page 11 2. I eat it because I like it......Page 15 3. Sugar and other carbohydrates......Page 25 4. Where sugar comes from......Page 28 5. Is brown sugar better than white sugar?......Page 33 6. Refined and unrefined......Page 38 7. Not only sugar is sweet......Page 41 8. Who eats sugar, and how much?......Page 46 9. Words mean what you want them to mean......Page 61 10. Sugar's calories make you thin--they say......Page 65 11. How to eat more calories without eating real food......Page 73 12. Can you prove it?......Page 77 13. Coronary thrombosis, the modern epidemic......Page 91 14. Eat sugar and see what happens......Page 104 15. Too much blood sugar--or too little......Page 114 16. A pain in the middle......Page 128 17. A host of diseases......Page 136 18. Does sugar accelerate the life process--and death too?......Page 152 19. How does sugar produce its effects?......Page 159 20. Should sugar be banned?......Page 169 21. Attack is the best defence......Page 176 References......Page 199 Index......Page 205 Rear Cover......Page 212