Sugar Blues

By William Dufty, 1975

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Sugar Blues, by William Dufty

The classic #1 health bestseller Gloria Swanson brought to millions on national TV

Exposing sugar, the killer in your diet — offering you a life-saving, sugar-free way to health.

Over 1 million copies in print!


What are Sugar Blues?

Multiple physical and mental miseries caused by the consumption of sugar.

What specific health problems does sugar cause? Diabetes, obesity, coronary thrombosis, tooth and gum decay, varicose veins and stomach trouble, and, indirectly, mental disturbances.

Read William Dufty’s SUGAR BLUES and learn how you can eliminate the poison of sugar from your life and discover a thinner, healthier you. SUGAR BLUES is a memoir, a cookbook, and a primer on how to kick the sugar habit.

Everything you always wanted to know about sugar and weren’t able to find out is in SUGAR BLUES … Incredibly thorough … one of the most revealing, instructive, and helpful books ever written … Dufty rips the façade off the sugar pushers who are going to make their fast bucks over our dead bodies — if we let them. Sounding a warning against establishment cookbooks, Dufty completes his SUGAR BLUES with a detailed presentation of a fantastic range of food menus he has created … over the years since liberation from the White Plague.

John Shelley in Let’s Live Magazine

William Dufty, a prize-winning journalist, has put the food philosophy of his glorious guru-wife, Gloria Swanson, into print in SUGAR BLUES … a sardonically entertaining account of how the human race has had the the mark of cane put upon it.

Mary Daniels, The Chicago Tribune

Superb and scary.

Detroit Free Press

Readers who want to feel better, look better, and enjoy life more — to say nothing of those just looking for a good book — will certainly be attracted to SUGAR BLUES.

Publishers Weekly

Rarely has scientific information been made so entertaining. William Dufty has gloriously performed a service for us … making (science) more comprehensible and accessible. He writes with conviction … blending extensive research with his own personal experience … a fascinating story that even skeptics can enjoy. SUGAR BLUES is bound to become a health classic.

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About the author

After his deliverance from decades of heavy C12H22O11 addiction, William Dufty introduced the work of the renowned Japanese Sensei (guide) with his translation of You Are All Sanpaku in 1965. Chief intercontinental cook for Gloria Swanson, a prize-winning New York newspaperman, and a contributing editor to the East-West Journal, Dufty’s credits include the international bestseller Lady Sings The Blues.

If you are at all interested in your health, read this book!

San Francisco Review Of Books

The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession, locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatory madness, psychiatrized for psychoses, lobotomized for schizophrenia.

How many patients would have listened if the local healer had told them that the only thing ailing them was sugar blues?


Copyright © 1975 by William Dufty


For Billie Holiday whose death changed my life and Gloria Swanson whose life changed my death.


Sugar Refined sucrose, C12H22O11, produced by multiple chemical processing of the juice of the sugar cane or beet and removal of all fiber and protein, which amount to 90 percent of the natural plant.

Blues A state of depression or melancholy overlaid with fear, physical discomfort, and anxiety (often expressed lyrically as an autobiographical chronicle of personal disaster).

Sugar Blues Multiple physical and mental miseries caused by human consumption of refined sucrose — commonly called sugar.

Contents

  1. It Is Necessary to Be Personal
  2. The Mark of Cane
  3. How We Got Here From There
  4. In Sugar We Trust
  5. Blame It on the Bees
  6. From the Nipple to the Needle
  7. Of Cabbages and Kings
  8. How to Complicate Simplicity
  9. Dead Dogs and Englishmen
  10. Codes of Honesty
  11. What the Specialists Say
  12. Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet?
  13. Kicking
  14. Soup to Nuts