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Default Sugar Blues in Deutschland

On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:56:38 AM UTC-8, graham wrote:
> On 15/01/2015 8:46 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> >
> >
> > "graham" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> On 15/01/2015 8:11 AM, wrote:
> >>> Squirts asked if invert syrup (as likely in his German sour cherries)
> >>> was as bad as HFCS. (Acid is applied to sucrose to split it into glucose
> >>> and fructose, thus "inverting" it.)
> >>>
> >>> Trying to find out, I stumbled across a number of German books
> >>> pointing out
> >>> the harm of sucrose. In English their titles would be "Pure. White.
> >>> Deadly."
> >>> "Sugar, the Household Killer" "Guaranteed Hazardous to your Health"
> >>>
> >> The book "Pure, White & Deadly" was published in England in the 60s.
> >> It was controversial at the time (I remember a televised debate where
> >> the author was a speaker) and was then ignored.
> >> It has recently been "re-discovered".

> >
> > I remember it well. So, it is back then is it? Any changes?
> >

> AIUI a US scientist recently came to the same conclusion and did a
> google search only to discover that book.
> Graham


I see that Lustig (a fine German word) is now a co-author to the latest
edition of Yudkin's book.