Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

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a b Yudkin, John (27 July 1957). "Diet and Coronary Thrombosis". The Lancet. 270 (6987): 155–162. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(57)90614-1. PMID 13450357. 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. At the time of publication, Yudkin sat on the advisory panel of the British Department of Health's Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy (COMA). [2] He stated his intention in writing the book in the last paragraph of the first chapter: "I hope that when you have read this book I shall have convinced you that sugar is really dangerous." [3] Leomie Anderson flaunts her jaw-dropping figure in a skimpy metallic co-ord as she joins chic Vogue Williams at swanky H&M bash

If, as seems increasingly likely, the nutritional advice on which we have relied for 40 years was profoundly flawed, this is not a mistake that can be laid at the door of corporate ogres. Nor can it be passed off as innocuous scientific error. What happened to John Yudkin belies that interpretation. It suggests instead that this is something the scientists did to themselves – and, consequently, to us. Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (1989), Panel on Dietary Sugars. Dietary Sugars and Human Disease. London: Department of Health. Report on Health and Social Subjects 37 Yudkin, John (1967). Chemistry, Medicine and Nutrition: Symposium held in Bristol on 14–15 April, 1966. London: Royal Institute of Chemistry. pp.33–44. Yudkin's interest in sugar arose indirectly from his studies of the alarming increase in many countries during the first half of the twentieth century in the incidence of coronary thrombosis. This increase was of great concern to health professionals, and it was widely attributed to an increase in the amount of fat, or of a particular type of fat, in the diet. In a paper published in 1957 [2] Yudkin analysed diets and coronary mortality in different countries for the year 1952, and also analysed trends in diet, and trends in coronary mortality, in the UK between 1928 and 1954. The first of these analyses produced no evidence for the view that total fat, or animal fat, or hydrogenated fat, was the direct cause of coronary thrombosis; in fact the closest relationship between coronary deaths and any single dietary factor was with sugar. The second analysis, that of historical trends in the UK, found no good relationship with any single dietary factor. Instead, it suggested that some change or changes in lifestyle during the past several decades was contributing to the increased incidence of coronary deaths. One obvious change was reduced exercise, and another was alterations in diet. It may already have done. Last December, the scientists responsible for the report received a humiliating rebuke from Congress, which passed a measure proposing a review of the way the advice informing the guidelines is compiled. It referred to “questions … about the scientific integrity of the process”. The scientists reacted angrily, accusing the politicians of being in thrall to the meat and dairy industries (given how many of the scientists depend on research funding from food and pharmaceutical companies, this might be characterised as audacious).a b Lustig, Robert H. (July 2009). Sugar: The Bitter Truth on YouTube. University of California Television. a b Bray, George A. (July 2010). "Fructose: Pure, White, and Deadly? Fructose, by Any Other name, Is a Health Hazard". Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. 4 (4): 1003–1007. doi: 10.1177/193229681000400432. PMC 2909535. PMID 20663467.

A chapter called Sugar should be banned suggests that sooner or later legislation will be needed to prevent people from consuming so much sucrose (this time foreshadowing the UK’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy or "sugar tax"). Yudkin concludes his book with some examples of the ways in which organisations connected with the sugar industry, and with the manufacturers of processed foods that use sugar, sought to interfere with his research or with its publication. Mandelstam, Joel; J. Yudkin (1952). "Studies in Biochemical Adaptation. The Effect of Variation in Dietary Protein upon the Hepatic Arginase of the Rat". Biochemical Journal. 51 (5): 681–686. doi: 10.1042/bj0510681. PMC 1197916. PMID 13018145. a b Cannon, Geoffrey (1992). Experts Agree: an Analysis of One Hundred Authoritative Scientific Reports on Food, Nutrition and Public Health Published Throughout the World in Thirty Years, Between 1961 and 1991. Consumers' Association, London REVEALED: The 'super comfortable' power leggings from Sweaty Betty that gym goers can't get enough ofLlewellyn Smith, Julia (17 February 2014). "John Yudkin: The Man Who Tried to Warn Us About sugar". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014.

Kim Kardashian's most daring costume yet! Reality star, 43, channels THAT very sexy Salma Hayek From Dusk Till Dawn bikiniThe nutritional establishment has proved itself, over the years, skilled at ad hominem takedowns, but it is harder for them to do to Robert Lustig or Nina Teicholz what they once did to John Yudkin. Harder, too, to deflect or smother the charge that the promotion of low-fat diets was a 40-year fad, with disastrous outcomes, conceived of, authorised, and policed by nutritionists. Yudkin, John (16 September 1944). "The Nutritional Status of Children and Mothers of Industrial Towns". The Medical Officer. Jason Manford shares touching message to Matthew Perry fans who are struggling with his death: 'Grieve as if you have lost a friend' M&S Christmas advert star Tan France slams criticism of the 'Palestinian flag' colours used in the commercial - pointing out it was filmed in AUGUST Lustig, Robert (26 May 2009). "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", University of California Television ( uploaded to YouTube on 20 July 2009).