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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these,...
2) Sugar coated
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sugar Coated examines the various public relations tactics that the food industry has employed over the years to beat back accelerating concerns about the toxicity of sugar. Its starting point is a secret PR campaign the industry devised in the 1970s to deflect attention away from developing health concerns about sugar. It then traces how in the years since the industry has honed its PR tactics to counter mounting scientific evidence about the dangers...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic? Prior to 1600, sugar was a costly luxury, the domain of the rich. But with the rise of the sugar colonies in the New World over the following century, sugar became cheap, ubiquitous and an everyday necessity. Less than fifty years ago, few people suggested...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the most dominant food in the world. How has sugar infiltrated our diet and culture? What effect does it have on our minds and bodies? THAT SUGAR FILM is one man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights...
6) Mom's sugar solution: 150 low-sugar recipes for your kids favorite foods, sweet treats, and more!
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tame your sugar cravings with these simple, low-sugar recipes that emphasize natural ingredients and support healthy eating habits for you and your family. In Mom's Sugar Solution, you'll learn how much sugar is acceptable, how to spot hidden sugars on food labels, and how to get your family involved in a low-sugar lifestyle. With advice from family nutritionist Laura Chalela Hoover about the best ways to minimize sugar in a child's diet, you can...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Schaub challenged her family to join her on a quest to eat no added sugar for an entire year. Along the way, she uncovered the real costs of our sugar-heavy American diet-- including diabetes, obesity, and other health problems. Here is what "kicking the sugar addiction" looks like for a real American family.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Smith will guide you to eat well, and frequently, while controlling carbohydrates and dropping pounds to reach your goal. You will lose weight on this diet, and start losing fast!
"Do you want to lose weight? BLAST the Sugar Out! will guide you to eat well--and frequently--while controlling carbohydrates and dropping pounds to reach your goal. You will lose weight on this diet--and start losing fast! Has your doctor suggested you get your blood...
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Language
English
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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÉ -- known as TÉtÉ -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, TÉtÉ finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with powdered...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
Here, Dr. Mark Hyman reveals a scientifically and clinically proven program that will help you not only achieve fast and sustained weight loss but also say good-bye to chronic health complaints, including type 2 diabetes, asthma, joint pain, digestive problems, autoimmune disease, headaches, brain fog, allergies, acne, eczema, and even sexual dysfunction. At the root of all of these problems is insulin imbalance, which is triggered by addiction to...
15) Baking with less sugar: recipes for desserts using natural sweeteners and little-to-no white sugar
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Historian Matthew Parker discusses the history behind one of the greatest power struggles of the 17th to 19th centuries as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar--a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold'--in the tiny Caribbean islands of Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Readers came out in droves when Prevention launched its Sugar Smart movement, making The sugar smart diet a New York Times bestseller and creating a demand for more sugar-savvy content from the brand. Now Anne Alexander has revamped her popular plan to give readers what they've been asking for: [a] ... plan that offers ... results in less time, with even more tools for success"--
Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Health warnings about diabetes and obesity are on the rise. In The Sugar Detox Plan, an expert medical team explains how and why sugar has become the villain of the modern diet, why it is bad for you, and what you can do about it. Learn about alternative sugars and follow the three practical steps to reduce your sugar intake, eat healthily, and enjoy more exercise. Includes a full range of healthy and delicious sugar-free recipes to get you started,"--page...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
""Taking its cues from works by Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, and Matisse, this collection of uniquely delicious dessert recipes (and step-by-step assembly guides) gives readers all they need to make their own edible masterpieces"--
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