Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, Professor Yudkin explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugarreallybetter than white? - to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods, and how it is damaging our health.
John Yudkin (8 August 1910 - 12 July 1995) was a British physiologist and nutritionist, whose books include This Slimming Business, Eat Well, Slim Well and This Nutrition Business. He became internationally famous with his book Pure, White and Deadly, first published in 1972, and was one of the first scientists to claim that sugar was a major cause of obesity and heart disease. Robert H. Lustig, M.D has spent the past sixteen years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society. His YouTube video lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has received over two million hits and his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease is being published in Autumn 2012.
Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, this
book explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types -
is brown sugar really better for us than white? - to how it is
sneakily inserted in our everyday foods.
*Telegraph, Top 10 Diet Books*
[A] valiant . . . attempt to warn us against our lust for
sucrose
*British Medical Journal*
Arguably the leading nutritionist of his time
*Guardian*
A landmark work on the subject
*The Telegraph*
A medical classic
*Nutrition Policy Unit, London Metropolitan University*
Yudkin was far ahead of his time with his idea of nutrition as a
subject of great breadth: not just the study of the composition of
foods, but the importance of enjoying a variety of fresh foods, and
the recognition of the psychological and social factors that cause
us to choose certain foods and avoid others
*Independent*
As an isolated voice, Yudkin, who died in 1995, may have lost the
battle with the sugar industry four decades ago, but big food will
find it more difficult to silence his growing army of disciples
whose only incentive is to expose what's right for public
health
*Guardian*
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