Reading the book "Pure, White and Deadly" by John Yudkin.

Dear companions,

This book is essential to understand how sugar affects and where it affects.

The disadvantage is that it is only in English.

"We tell you the intriguing story of the man who investigated the harmful effects of sugar"

40 years ago, Professor John Yudkin tried to warn us about how sucrose affected our body;However, that ended up destroying his professional career.

Where we lead our gaze, we find the almost omnipresent presence of sugar in our daily kitchen.While now there are various healthy alternatives (and others not so much) of this sweet seasoning, we cannot deny that food acquire a different flavor when we add it to those dishes.But what would be of the delicious paneclos, cakes, meringues, fruits in syrup and other guilty tastes?

However, in the last decade, science has been responsible for showing us the damage that sugar produces in our body: heart disease, obesity, diabetes, addictions, and just to mention some.According to these researchers, these are results of studies that were carried out lately ... But, what if we told you that for 40 years the negative consequences of sucrose were already known, however it was chosen to evade that knowledge and its researcher?

In 1972, John Yudkin, founder of the Queen Elizabeth College Department of Nutrition, of the University of London, published his book Sugar: pure, white and mortal, in which he mentioned the harmful effects of sucrose.It was not well received by the scientific audience or by the food industry.It was really a good combination, since they bombarded Yudkin's credibility and increased the use of food in food.

How did they achieve it?

According to the endocrinologist professor Robert Lustig, from the University of California, Yudkin's massive attack was an almost Machiavellian plan.With a video on YouTube that lasts 90 minutes and with 4.1 million visits, and a book called sugar: the bitter truth, Lustig explains that it all started in the sixties:

When nutritionists from various university laboratories around the US and Western Europe tried to dig why there was an alarming increase in heart disease in people.The answer was simple: the culprit was the high level of fat in the food.It was then that war was declared to fat.It was recommended that, for all those people victims of heart disease, they would begin to adjust their diet to a lighter, to a "Mediterranean diet."

It was a perfect opportunity for the food industry: instead of responsibly treating the situation, the market enthusiastically showed "healthy" and low -fat products (with many sweeteners).As expected, food became popular overnight.Therefore, at the beginning of the seventies, every supermarket was stuck in yogurts, desserts and glasses in fat.

Before all this hysterical drive, there was a voice that opposed: John Yudkin.Throughout his experiments, he found that, beyond blaming fat, there was a strong correlation between heart disease and high sugar consumption;In addition, it was he who discovered the connection between high insulin levels (therefore of type two diabetes) and sucrose.He even writes:

If only a small fraction of what we know about the effects of sugar were revealed in relation to any other material used as food additive, that material would be prohibited immediately.

Of course, this condemnation to sugar was not something that the food industry wanted to listen.Not when they were at the top of low -fat sales sales.It was an uncomfortable investigation that disarmed its perfect business scenario.Consequently, sponsors (such as Coca Cola) and some scientistsThey began to discredit both the image and Yudkin's work: they publicly considered that their work were "emotional assertions", "pure science fiction", "only assumptions without scientific explanations";He stopped being invited to international conferences or canceled at the last minute;Even the Queen Elizabeth school withdrew his promise in which they allowed the teacher to use their facilities to continue investigating after their retirement.Only after Yudkin's lawyer sent a letter to school, he was offered a small room in a building apart.

At the end of the seventies, few scientists dared to published results similar to those of Yudkin, for fear of being easy prey such as the teacher.The result: low fat products (with high sugar levels) preserved their omnipresence in the market.

The endocrinologist professor Robert Lustig comments that "that helps us understand how a concept can be bastardized by the dark side of the industry."

What tells us sugar: pure, white and mortal (1972)?

According to Professor Yudkin's book, sugar not only fattens and causes tooth, but can also cause other chronic diseases such as: Cancer, Alzheimer's, Diabetes and the Heart.In addition, it is an addictive element, which interferes with appetite creating an almost irresistible urgency to continue eating.

What can we do then?

For 40 years, obesity and diabetes rates have increased up to ten times in conjunction with sugar consumption.Most of the time we do not realize that we eat it, when in reality it is hidden in processed foods, juices of the teas, yogurts, and so on.

However, Dr. Julian Cooper, a researcher at AB Sugar, insists that the increase in the incidence of diseases are really the result of a mixture of complex factors:

Scientific evidence concludes that sugar consumption as part of a balanced diet does not induce a lifestyle full of diseases, such as diabetes or cardiac conditions.[…] Many people flee from sugar, and when that happens, companies conform to what the client demands.It is a shame that a warning that could have been taken into account 40 years ago, was ignored: science is returning disastrously to discard Yudkin's knowledge.That was for the health damage of millions.

Consequently, it is important to consider that a healthy life is the set of many factors.For example, exercising daily, resting enough hours for your body and mind to recover from working hours, drink water, make a balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, white and red meat, nuts, among others.You could even use home sugar alternatives;How to use honey to sweeten the morning tea, mascabada sugar for coffee, among other options.It is a matter of letting the imagination fly.

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Type 1 diabetes is autoimmune.
It has nothing to do with sugar consumption.
And it is already tired to repeat it.

Estimated Regina:

We are going to see, the consumption of sugar affects us all, diabetics and non -diabetics, insulin -dependent and not insulin -dependent.

That is my opinion.

Estimated Regina:

I send you a study conducted in 2014 that talks about the worsening of renal and pancreatic function in patients exposed to fructose: sugar is more fructose glucose.

Estimated Regina:
What is your opinion about the article that I have sent you?
Have I helped you?
We are all on the same ship.

I have not been able to download it on my mobile. But we already know that the fructose, in excess, is richer, is also the sucrose in excess., Although a healthy diet does not exclude carbohydrates.

Your answer is very formal.Define the concept of healthy diet, please.Define the concept of excess.Excess for a diabetic, is it different than for a non -diabetic or is it the same?

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regina said:
type1 diabetes is autoimmune.
It has nothing to do with sugar consumption.
And it is already tired to repeat it.

It is possible that my reasoning is wrong, is your opinion?

There are infant children who suffer from it, and others who will never have it, eat what they eat.
It has a genetic basis and trigger it, in many cases, viruses that alter the immune system.

@"Isma" still remains to know about autoimmune diseases but it has been seen that intestinal permeability plays an important role.Also sugar because it causes chronic inflammation, which worsens a lot of self -immunity and health in general.For example, in hypothyroidism, stop taking sugar, gluten and many times dairy (especially cow) together with daily physical exercise improves symptoms.In many cases it also causes medication to be left.If you are interested in these issues I follow an expert nutritionist on this subject that also suffers hypothyroidism, it is called Montse Reus.

In type 1 diabetes it is clear that there is a genetic factor, and surely in the rest of autoimmune, but there is also something environmental.And I agree with you that surely it has a lot to do with current food and lifestyle.In recent years, cases of these diseases have increased greatly and our genetics has not changed, so something we are doing wrong.It is surely a combination of things and there is no single guilty, but the modern diet full of outrage, refined flours and sugar is clear that it brings nothing good.In studies that have been done with tribes that lead an ancestral lifestyle, it has been seen that % of these diseases are much lower and that when the cases of these diseases increase to a western lifestyle.Its microbiota has also been studied and is much more varied than that of Westerners.As they get more studies, everything will be seen.