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Description: Sweet Poison : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780718179076 : 0718179072 : 26 Sep 2013 : Helps you understand and break your addiction to sugar. This book sets out to investigate the connection between sugar, our soaring obesity rates and some of the more worrying diseases of the twenty-first century. The Book Depository Sweet Poison by David Gillespie - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: Andrew Gibson
Rating: 5
Review: This is a must read if you have woken up to the dangers of sugar. It provides a fascinating outline of how we got to where we are today in world awash with obesity and metabolic illness. I read it when I was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. There’s no easy way to put this: Diabetics are short changed and cheated by society in general and the food industry in particular. So are Pre-Diabetics and people completely free of diabetes. Everyone is. Official Government Dietary advice seems to be quite literally useless. This is a world where products that can make you seriously ill are called “Innocent Smoothies” and have official stamps indicating that they are part of your recommended five a day. We are bombarded with adverts from the soft drinks and confectionery industries and are trained as children to prize sweets, cakes and chocolates as rewards for good behaviour. If you are diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic, it is almost certainly going to be because of your lifestyle choices and the food that you eat that have caused the problem. The food industry as whole packs sugar into more or less every processed product they make. This is primarily because sugar trigger receptors in your brain that makes you perceive the food as more enjoyable simply because it contains superfluous sugar to get you hooked. Sugar also acts a preservative that extends the shelf life of processed food, which is another reason it is packed into all types of savoury goods that don't need it. We justify our consumption of chocolate and sweets by telling ourselves that we have a sweet tooth and ignore that fact that it’s the overconsumption of sugar that makes us fat. Young adults have a tendency to think they are immortal and because they don't see any visible outward signs of getting fatter, they keep chomping on the chocolate without understanding that you get fat on the inside first. It’s the fat that makes us ill. We think that diabetes type 2 is something that only affects other people while we suffer from it’s symptoms without realising we even have the condition. We turn a blind eye to the eating habits of our kids and assume that they can process sugar more effectively because they are children. Subconsciously, we think that not allowing them access to an endless procession of sugary treats, cakes and ice cream is tantamount to child abuse. They we wonder why they don’t grow into adults that know how to eat healthy. However, If we look at some basic information from the WHO, (The World Health Organization) we can easily see where the epidemic of obesity and metabolic illness comes from. According to the WHO we urgently need to cut our sugar consumption by 50%. Once this has been done we are supposed to have a maximum of 50g of sugar per day to have any hope of remaining healthy in the long term. You can get more sugar that that by eating 6 Jaffa Cakes! However this book will help you permanently break free of an addictive poison that will kill you in the long run.
Author: Mr. Quentin Field-boden
Rating: 3
Review: I read this book as I have a longstanding interest in low carbohydrate and ketogenic diets for health and weight management, having read a lot on the subject. Quite a lot of the subject matter is not new or contentious but amongst others here are a couple of statements from the book that rang alarm bells for me: 1). Too little glucose, called hypoglycaemia (hypo – too little; glyc – sugar; aemia – in the blood), results in very immediate problems for your brain. Remember, the only fuel your brain can use is pure glucose. Without it, the brain begins to shut down." 2). Carbohydrates (except for fructose) are not bad for you. You need glucose from carbohydrates to live. The human brain can use ketones perfectly well as a backup fuel, the first statement (the only fuel your brain can use is pure glucose) is not strictly true. You do not need glucose from carbohydrates to live, the second statement is untrue. The human requirement for carbohydrates from the diet is zero. Sufficient glucose can be produced by the liver to maintain normal blood glucose via a process called gluconeogenesis. Reading these statements made me question the book.
