Summary: Follows Damon Gameau as he 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. Highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THACarmel, Molly
Summary: "A proven plan to break free from your unhealthy relationship with sugar - and reclaim your health and your life for good"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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Summary: "Sugar" offers a compelling and surprising look at the sweet commodity, from the ways in which it Africanized the cane fields of the Caribbean to how it fueled the Industrial Revolution and jump-started the fast-food craze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duckworth Overlook 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 ABBJacoby, Richard
Summary: "What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body--in our feet, organs, and brain--why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body'snerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the damage.Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 JACSummary: Showcasing the effect of a high sugar diet on a healthy body.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2016
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Wilson, Sarah
Summary: "Who doesn't crave sugar? And who doesn't believe that if she ate less sugar, she would feel healthier--lighter, more rested, energized, and even more beautiful? It's just breaking the addiction that seems so hard"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 WILLustig, Robert H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1963 LUSInchauspé, Jessie
Summary: "Improve all areas of your health from your weight, sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, and even slow down aging, with easy-to-implement, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar levels while still eating the foods you love. Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our body that has a huge impact on our health. It enters our bloodstream through the starchy or sweet foods we eat....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1986