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Suicide By Sugar: A Startling Look At Our #1 National Addiction (2009)

by Nancy Appleton(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0757003060 (ISBN13: 9780757003066)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Square One Publishers

review 1: Wasn't great, wasn't terrible. There was a lot of time spent on soda, chocolate, and those ensure drinks and how terrible they are for you, but then it was stated several times that its okay to put up with the sugar in ketchup, which I found rather odd. Couldn't you just stop eating ketchup like you should stop drinking soda? I really was looking for more of an overall picture of how sugar is in almost everything. I did gain some knowledge and it did provide some paths towards other information I want to find.
review 2: The writing style detracts from the important message of how a high sugar diet harms your health. The book is scattered, disorganized and often redundant. Scare tactics without adequate citations are sometimes used to get her point across. La... morezy leaps of logic are annoying, such as linking eating chocolate to bulemia in one paragraph. Or later, when she writes that studies show conflicting results re: links between sugar consumption and children's emotional states, she asks us to rely on our gut when reading about anecdotal evidence. She frequently glosses over the differences between causation and correlation. Finally, I feel strange reading a book where the author repeatedly recommends buying one of her homeostasis test kits with an order form conveniently appended at the end of the book. I'm convinced I should follow a low sugar diet but my conclusion comes from other reading, not from this book. less

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