Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It - John Yudkin
Category: Science
Narrator: Chris MacDonnell
Tags: Science, Documentary, Adults
More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic expos on the dangers of sugar - now with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the best-selling author of Fat Chance., Scientist John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans. His classic expos, Pure, White, and Deadly, clearly and engagingly describes how sugar is damaging our bodies, why we eat so much of it, and what we can do to stop. He explores the ins and outs of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better than white? - to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods and how it is harming our health., In 1972, Yudkin was mostly ignored by the health industry and media, but the events of the last 40 years have proven him spectacularly right. Yudkins insights are even more important and relevant now, with todays record levels of obesity, than when they were first published. Brought up-to-date by ch
