Anyone read the book SUGAR BLUES??

[yelly]

It's an older book that I've had for years, and just started reading it again for some inspiration to eat healthier. Can't remember exact details about it, but I do remember it was very eye-opening as to how bad sugar is for us. Anyone else read it or have comments about it?

 

[lisab99]

I read it a few years ago - still have a copy of it. He makes some excellent points especially when he discusses the history of sugar - and yes, so much of what he says is true about the detrimental effects on our bodies. However - I do think he displays extraordinary extremism. I mean - really - he says cigarettes are bad because of the sugar in the paper. . . . really silly if you ask me. They aren't good with sugar-less paper. . . .

But he makes you think. I see extremists for what they are - people who make us question the norm. I do, however, agree with him that sugar is Satan to our bodies and we have gotten way out of control with it in our society.

 

[kathryn]

I read it when it first came out, and it got me off sugar for a while (which is saying a lot, because at that time, I ate a lot of sugar). Funny thing: I visited my grandmother during that time, and while she took in stride my telling her I'd just become a vegetarian, when I refused a cookie and said I didn't eat sugar, she said in the most stunned voice "You don't eat SUGAR?!"

 

[workingToBeFit]

I do remember reading it years ago - and feeling like it opened my eyes to some issues about sugar in food that I had never thought about before!