William Dufty - Sugar Blues (1975)

William Dufty - Sugar Blues (1975)

Famous diatribe against sugar and its adverse effects on health. Probes the wider social / psychological / economic context.
Already on the net in Spanish and I have not traced an English copy, so here is a new one.

"Sugar: Refined sucrose, C12-H22-O11, produced by multiple chemical processing of the juice of the sugar cane or beet and removal of all fiber and protein, which amount to 90 percent of the natural plant.

Blues: A state of depression or melancholy overlaid with fear, physical discomfort, and anxiety (often expressed lyrically as an autobiographical chronicle of personal disaster).

Sugar Blues: Multiple physical and mental miseries caused by human consumption of refined sucrose—commonly called sugar."

**CONTENTS**
It Is Necessary to be Personal.
The Mark of Cane.
How We Got Here From There.
In Sugar We Trust.
Blame It On the Bees.
From the Nipple to the Needle.
Of Cabbages and Kings.
How to Complicate Simplicity.
Dead Dogs and Englishmen.
Codes of Honesty.
What the Specialists Say.
Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet?
Kicking.
Soup to Nuts.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blues
For the song, see Sugar Blues (song).

Sugar Blues is a book by William Dufty that was released in 1975 and became a commercial success. According to the publishers, over 1.6 million copies have been printed.[1]

In the book, Dufty makes the case that sugar is an addictive drug, that it is extremely harmful to the human body, and that the sugar industry conspires to keep Americans addicted to sugar.

The book's central argument is that a small dietary change, eliminating refined sugar, can make a huge difference in how good one is able to feel physically and mentally. Dufty even goes so far as to suggest that eliminating refined sugar from the diet of those institutionalized for mental illness could be an effective treatment for some.

Several authors have noted that Sugar Blues makes very wide-ranging and strongly stated rhetorical claims as to the ill-effects of sugar, including a role in bubonic plague[2] [3] [4]

John Lennon was a strong supporter of the book.[citation needed]

http://www.quantumbalancing.com/news/sugar_blues.htm

1. ^ [1] - Accessed 23rd December 2009.
2. ^ "Dufty compares sugar to opium, morphine, and heroin, and calls sugar companies "pushers". [He] blamed sugar for everything from acne and scurvy to bubonic plague." Heather Hendershot, Saturday morning censors: television regulation before the V-chip, Duke University Press, 1998 . ISBN 0822322404, 9780822322405. pp88.
3. ^ Michael E. Oakes, Bad foods: changing attitudes about what we eat Transaction Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0765802287, 9780765802286. p101.
4. ^ "William Dufty blamed most of man's ills on overindulgence in white sugar" Mark Pendergrast, For God, country and Coca-Cola: the definitive history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it, Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0465054684, 9780465054688. p302

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Dufty

In the 1960s, he met Gloria Swanson, an enthusiast for macrobiotic diets, who introduced him to the macrobiotic culture and convinced him that white sugar was unsafe.

He became good friends with Japanese artist Yoko Ono and her husband, musician and former Beatle, John Lennon after producing an English edition of Georges Ohsawa's You Are All Sanpaku; the book credited with starting the macrobiotic food movement in America.