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Pure, White and Deadly is a 1972 book by John Yudkin, a British nutritionist and former Chair of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London. [1] Published in New York, it was the first publication by a scientist to anticipate the adverse health effects, especially in relation to obesity and heart disease, of the public's increased sugar consumption.
As free sugar consumption grew in the latter part of the 20th century, researchers began to examine whether a diet high in free sugar, especially refined sugar, was damaging to human health. In 2015, the World Health Organization strongly recommended that adults and children reduce their intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total ...
A new study has found that limiting the amount of sugar that babies get in the first 1,000 days after conception is linked to decreased rates of diabetes and high blood pressure later in life.
Ironically published on Halloween by Science.org, the study noted a 20% decrease in high blood pressure and 35% in type 2 diabetes diagnoses when parents restricted children’s sugar consumption ...
In addition to being highly caloric, the after-care food and drink amounted to about 22% of added sugar for the day, and about one-third of the sweet and salty snacks that kids ate, according to a ...
The guideline recommends that both adults and children reduce the intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake. [15] In 2016, added sugar was added to the revised version of the nutrition facts label and was a given a daily value of 50 grams or 200 calories per day for a 2,000 calorie diet. [16] [17]
As any parent who's taken their child to a birthday party knows, a single bite of cake can appear to send your kid's energy levels into overdrive.
The book has 14 chapters, 78 references, five pages of notes, and a 10-page index. The book reviews the history of the world from the point of view of sugar, sounding the alarm of its deleterious and debilitating effects. The chapters are: It is necessary to be personal Gloria Swanson alerted Dufty to sugar's threat to health. The Mark of Cane