kirkor Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Anyone read any of the books specifically about sugar? Two main ones seem to be Sugar Blues by William Duffy (>) and Suicide by Sugar by Nancy Appleton (>), and there's a few others that show up as related on Amazon (with good reviews). The Hartwig's site/book I think lays out the case well enough for the context of a Whole30, but it might be useful to some to delve deeper into areas of interest. The context thing is important, because Duffy for example still promotes whole grains and corn, I'm reading another book right now I found on the library shelf next to Sugar Blues, it's called No Sugar No Flour Will Give Me The Power. Not linking to it because it's fairly cheesy, and is a bit fruit-heavy and meat-lite, but I mention it as an example of two things: (1) library shelf browsing can be better than Amazon's "people who looked at this item also looked at these items" feature, because you get a chance to see some obscure stuff and (2) even books that are cheesy may have one or two good points that can be of benefit. Appleton also has this list on her site: http://nancyappleton.com/141-reasons-sugar-ruins-your-health/ Some of the claims are probably debatable but it's still thought-provoking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I've read the Sugar Blues. I really like that hook No Sugar No Flour Will Give Me the Power. I'll use that when I'm hiking to the top of the hill, ridge, mountain. Frankengrains won't get you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb. Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Anyone read any of the books specifically about sugar? Two main ones seem to be Sugar Blues by William Duffy (>) and Suicide by Sugar by Nancy Appleton (>), and there's a few others that show up as related on Amazon (with good reviews). The Hartwig's site/book I think lays out the case well enough for the context of a Whole30, but it might be useful to some to delve deeper into areas of interest. The context thing is important, because Duffy for example still promotes whole grains and corn, I'm reading another book right now I found on the library shelf next to Sugar Blues, it's called No Sugar No Flour Will Give Me The Power. Not linking to it because it's fairly cheesy, and is a bit fruit-heavy and meat-lite, but I mention it as an example of two things: (1) library shelf browsing can be better than Amazon's "people who looked at this item also looked at these items" feature, because you get a chance to see some obscure stuff and (2) even books that are cheesy may have one or two good points that can be of benefit. Appleton also has this list on her site: http://nancyappleton.com/141-reasons-sugar-ruins-your-health/ Some of the claims are probably debatable but it's still thought-provoking. Have you seen Fed Up? Its all about sugar. For the non book worms. http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkor Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 [****mods, maybe change the title of this thread to "books about grain, sugar, etc."?.....................] I searched the forums and didn't see any references to the book Wheat Belly (William Davis, link), which surprised me! I know reception was mixed in some circles, but the topic is definitely of interest to us on this forum, eh? Just finished Grain Brain (David Perlmutter, link) last week, and it's pretty cool. Wheat Belly is pretty much all about ditching gluten due to the changes in wheat over the decades (hybridizing, etc.) and Grain Brain is more about a ketogenic diet in general, advocating for restricting all carbs. Next on the list is Good Calories, Bad Calories (Gary Taubes, link) ... he's gotten a lot of crap too since the book came out, and the whole "cult of personality" thing cuts both ways for sure. I think these books are good because they at least get people thinking & discussing the issues. They used to say in school that a good debater is able to argue both sides of an argument equally well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJB Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Wheat Belly is what brought me here in the first place, in a roundabout way. I used to dramatically say "I'd rather DIE than give up bread!!" whenever someone started discussing a low-carb or gluten-free diet. After reading Wheat Belly and letting that digest for a few weeks, I was ready to let go. Definitely a thought-provoking book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkor Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Watching "Cereal Killers" now ... free viewing this week: main site: http://www.cerealkillersmovie.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsbailer Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Just finished all 3 parts of The Men Who Made Us Fat a BBC documentary. Very interesting expose on the manipulation of the American & British diets by the Food Industry of both countries. They referred to the book "Pure, White and Deadly" by John Yudkin. Too bad he was discredited and not taken seriously, we have all paid the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 I really like that hook No Sugar No Flour Will Give Me the Power. I'll use that when I'm hiking to the top of the hill, ridge, mountain. Frankengrains won't get you there. No Sugar No Flour Gives Me the Power. I'm still using that hook echo and I let it catapult me right on up the mountain. I have another one I thought of... Compliant...Not Complacent I'm Compliant Not Complacent . I let that engine...step by step take me up to the top of the mountain. Complacency won't get you there.....neither will whining, bawling, throwing a fit and blaming everyone else for all of your woes in life. You know what gives me a real pinch? If things were so darned great with our olde style of eating before we came here, everything was just dandy....what's the motivation for Changing a Winning Game? Nah. Let's not pull the wool over our own eyes. Things were not great! We came here because we want a healthy relationship with food and exercise. I do! I do! I'm getting that....how about you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeve Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 The two Wheat Belly books (WB Total Health, the sequel) had as profound an effect on me as ISWF and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Juiceman was my catalyst, ISWF rescued me from being a juicer, and WB/WBTH made it clear that I can live without dough. WBTH made me feel like if I don't cut out grain, there's little point to any of my compulsion about less impacting nutritional disasters I'm harboring. Mercola recommends this video, "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" produced by UCSF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM. It's an informative 90 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 The two Wheat Belly books (WB Total Health, the sequel) had as profound an effect on me as ISWF and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. Juiceman was my catalyst, ISWF rescued me from being a juicer, and WB/WBTH made it clear that I can live without dough. WBTH made me feel like if I don't cut out grain, there's little point to any of my compulsion about less impacting nutritional disasters I'm harboring. Oh, brother. I was the Queen of Smoothies. I have a Jack LaLanne, VitaMix, Bullet and NutraBlast. Dough Belly. That takes a blast furnace to burn off. I still have some Belly breadsticks left. They're not the Olive Garden variety But this kind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted November 25, 2014 Administrators Share Posted November 25, 2014 I really enjoyed Sugar Salt Fat....all about how the food industry uses science to hook and habitualize people's consumption of processed food products. Real eye opener! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeve Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 In that vid I linked above, Dr. Lustig talks about how switching to HFCS allowed Coke to increase the sodium in their drinks. Diet coke has less sodium because aspartame can't hide the salt as well as HFCS can, not because Coke has any conscience for those fooled by diet soda. Plus once you get under 35mg per serving, you can put that ever so healthy "very low sodium" claim on the can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvdogs Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I bought an audio version (for a 7 hour road trip) of The Big Fat Surprise. It was very good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkor Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Just finished Grain Brain (David Perlmutter, link) last week, and it's pretty cool. Good lil' clip: http://www.drperlmutter.com/icymi-live-kelly-michael/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeve Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Denise Minger's Death by Food Pyramid gets into sugar a little, mainly talking about how agribusiness took what the USDA wanted to do and turned it into a recommendation for 9-11 servings of grain. You may recognize Minger as the sparring partner with T. Colin Doughball over the long term revisited results of The China Study. Quick read on the destruction of the pyramid: http://www.davidhoffmaster.com/the-food-pyramid-you-never-got-to-see/, Dig further in Luise Light's book: http://www.amazon.com/What-Eat-Things-Really-Healthy/dp/007145313X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted January 23, 2015 Administrators Share Posted January 23, 2015 Denise Minger's Death by Food Pyramid gets into sugar a little, mainly talking about how agribusiness took what the USDA wanted to do and turned it into a recommendation for 9-11 servings of grain. You may recognize Minger as the sparring partner with T. Colin Doughball over the long term revisited results of The China Study. Quick read on the destruction of the pyramid: http://www.davidhoffmaster.com/the-food-pyramid-you-never-got-to-see/, Dig further in Luise Light's book: http://www.amazon.com/What-Eat-Things-Really-Healthy/dp/007145313X That first one is quite the article! Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeadowLily Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Denise Minger's Death by Food Pyramid gets into sugar a little, mainly talking about how agribusiness took what the USDA wanted to do and turned it into a recommendation for 9-11 servings of grain. You may recognize Minger as the sparring partner with T. Colin Doughball over the long term revisited results of The China Study. Quick read on the destruction of the pyramid: http://www.davidhoffmaster.com/the-food-pyramid-you-never-got-to-see/, Dig further in Luise Light's book: http://www.amazon.com/What-Eat-Things-Really-Healthy/dp/007145313X Doughball - those bagels that everyone smacks on with the om nom nom nom sounds at the breakfast table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipperific Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Sugar Nation by Jeff O'Connell was life changing for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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