Pure, white and deadly
By: John Yudkin.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Sugar -- Physiological effect.
Other titles: First published as Sweet and Dangerous in the USA by Peter H. Wyden 1972
First sentence: Sugar is common enough in all our lives, and almost everyone believes that it is simply an attractive sweet - one of many carbohydrates in the diet of civilized countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF AVA HELEN AND LINUS PAULING.

HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO LINUS PAULING FROM THE AUTHOR.
Table of contents: title: .; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements vi; title: Introduction vii; title: 1. What’s so different about sugar? I; title: 2. I eat it because I like it 5; title: 3. Sugar and other carbohydrates 15; title: 4. Where sugar comes from 18; title: 5. Is brown sugar better than white sugar? 23; title: 6. Refined and unrefined 28; title: 7. Not only sugar is sweet 31; title: 8. Who eats sugar, and how much? 36; title: 9. Words mean what you want them to mean 51; title: 10. Sugar’s calories make you thin - they say 55; title: 11. How to eat more calories without eating real food 63; title: 12. Can you prove it? 67; title: 13. Coronary thrombosis, the modern epidemic 81; title: 14. Eat sugar and see what happens 94; title: 15. Too much blood sugar - or too little 104; title: 16. A pain in the middle 118; title: 17. A host of diseases 126; title: 18. Does sugar accelerate the life process - and death too? 142; title: 19. How does sugar produce its effects? 149; title: 20. Should sugar be banned? 159; title: 21. Attack is the best defence 166; title: References 189; title: Index 195; title: .