Sugar Blues Mass Market Paperback – 17 Mar. 1986

I do not usually write reviews on books as it is just my interpretation of what the author told me. I read some of the negative reviews here though after almost finishing this book and had write a small review.This book is not scientific many others books have info for that. This book does not give you implicit instructions on how to kick sugar, processed food.This book is about the sugar blues. A friend recommended it as an eye opener. I had never heard the term sugar blues despite having suffered it a few times. The book is brilliant in explaining how sugar has become totally integrated into our world. So many doctors and scientists have tried to show how this is damaging to us but the reports have not made headline media at their time or in current times. This has lots of historical reviews and examples of people suffering with sugar addiction. It also rants about the effects on people. It is 5 stars for making me realise i am putting an inert substance into me and my family that has no nutritional value. I also cannot escape this as it is in everything. I am going to try though.It awakens in me a curiosity why I am being fed food that is bad for me. As I have aged my medical visits have increased. Why? Other cultures have records of this not happening. For this awareness this book gets 5 stars. I was asleep until recently.

I have Crohns and inflammatory arthritis. I am open to diet as a way to manage these conditions. I have also studied Biochemistry, and I am an ex nurse. Ù'Sugar Blues' made more and more sense with every page. Halfway through the book, I took sugar out of my diet to see how my body would respond. 5 days later, my normal aches have gone,my guts are in a healthier state and every part of my body feels more alive,more alert. I have lost 6LB! and feel hopeful that I may have found a solution to a healthier second half of my life.Get this book! 🙂 even if you have no health conditions, losing sugar may well change your life for the better.

A must read and you will never want to put sugar in your body again and you will feel angry and cheated that you believed what you were told about what was good for you and what was bad for you. I read this book as I was embarking on the ketogenic way of eating and it provided a very compelling motivation for making such a drastic change in my diet. The results of keto speak for themselves and it is simply magic! Do I miss that sweet sugar hit sometimes? Sure I do but sugar is not food and just cause [we might think] it makes stuff taste nicer doesn't mean it's actually good for us, quite the opposite. More people die earlier as a result of their sugar consumption than those who use heroin - let that sink in...

Reading this book is a bit like listening to a rant of a slightly odd uncle, rather than a university lecture on food and nutrition science. It is intersperses common sense with history and demagogy. While some of this books seems like utter b...., after a while one realises that the author’s main strength is not the accuracy or his claims, but in the way he challenges the readers convictions and assumptions on food and nutrition and in the common sense guidelines he offers.The book’s main antagonist is sugar, sugar in its refined pure state and the author’s main claim is that for some people eating this refined sugar severely affects their metabolism and even psyche, and that it induces the ‘sugar blues’.As someone who while not a diabetic still experienced regular sugar lows, I recognised many of the symptoms of this ‘sugar blues’, and decided that as the author was not suggesting anything fancy or pricy, just that I stop having sugar that it was worth trying.To my own surprise, I do feel lots better now. I no longer feel the urge to eat every couple of hours, I do not feel low if I don’t. I feel hunger in my stomach now and no longer in my head. At the same time I have lost a lot of weight. While this might not have the same effect on everybody, it is something that I would suggest anyone tries.I do sometimes still have odd days when I’m off, but they have been fairly contained and the result of a change in my diet. Overall this book has been a life changer for me.

I bought this book in 2006.It is now 2013 and I have just read it. That is how addicted to sugar I was. Sure, when it arrived I flicked through it halfheartedly, oohing and aahing at various facts - I then put it on my bookshelf and thought no more about it. I wasn't ready for the message it contained.Seven years on, and I have spent the last 3 years dealing with an overactive thyroid, trying many different ways to live with the condition, managing to stay drug free after the betablockers and thyroid blocking pills I needed for the first six months, being quite seriously ill. My health has overall been 'fair' - but my ability to handle stress has been severely compromised by the thyroid issue ( and likely the underlying adrenal one too). I have also had gallstones and ovarian cysts, painful periods, dreadful premenstrual issues, headaches and migraines, lethargy and depression.I am 46 years old and was wondering how I could possibly feel so crappy at such a relatively 'young' age.Finally, I developed severe gum problems. This was terrifying. Visions of false teeth floated around in my mind. I made the connection - sugar. The book jumped off the shelf into my hands. I sat, I read, I concentrated, I took it seriously, and then I cried. I literally shed tears for all the years of despair, and pain and addiction that I have suffered. All needlessly so. What an enormous waste. And I was shocked, and angry and in despair at the greed and stupidity of the human beings who persist in putting money before integrity and care for their fellow man.I stopped eating sugar.This was 3 days ago.I will never willingly or knowingly eat it again.I will update in a little while, when my health improves, as I absolutely know that it will.Please, please read this book.