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Pure, white and deadly: the problem of sugar.
1972, Davis-Poynter Ltd
in English
0706700562 9780706700565
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First Sentence
"Sugar is common enough in all our lives, and almost everyone believes that it is simply an attractive sweet - one of many carbohydrates in the diet of civilized countries."
Table of Contents
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction vii
1. What’s so different about sugar? I
2. I eat it because I like it 5
3. Sugar and other carbohydrates 15
4. Where sugar comes from 18
5. Is brown sugar better than white sugar? 23
6. Refined and unrefined 28
7. Not only sugar is sweet 31
8. Who eats sugar, and how much? 36
9. Words mean what you want them to mean 51
10. Sugar’s calories make you thin - they say 55
11. How to eat more calories without eating real food 63
12. Can you prove it? 67
13. Coronary thrombosis, the modern epidemic 81
14. Eat sugar and see what happens 94
15. Too much blood sugar - or too little 104
16. A pain in the middle 118
17. A host of diseases 126
18. Does sugar accelerate the life process - and death too? 142
19. How does sugar produce its effects? 149
20. Should sugar be banned? 159
21. Attack is the best defence 166
References 189
Index 195
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF AVA HELEN AND LINUS PAULING.
HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO LINUS PAULING FROM THE AUTHOR.
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