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n 1957, Dr William Coda Marti tried to a-
swer the question: When is a ood a ood and
 whe is it a poiso? His workig deitioo “poiso” was: “Medically: Ay substace ap-
 plied to the body, ingested or developed within
the body, which causes or may cause disease.Physically: Any substance which inhibits the
activity o a catalyst which is a minor substance,
chemical or enzyme that activates a reaction.”
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Te dictionary gives an even broader denition
or “poison”: “to exert a harmul inuence on,
or to pervert”.
Dr Martin classied rened sugar as a poison
because it has been depleted o its lie orces, vitamins and minerals. “What is let consistso pure, rened carbohydrates. Te body can-
not utilize this rened starch and carbohydrate
unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and
minerals are present. Nature supplies these el-
ements in each plant in quantities sucient tometabolize the carbohydrate in that particular
 plant. Tere is no excess or other added car-
bohydrates. Icomplete carbohydrate metabo-
lism results in the ormation o ‘toxic metabolite’
such as pyruvic acid ad abormal sugars co-
taining ve carbon atoms. Pyruvic acid accumu-
lates i the brai ad ervous system ad the
abnormal sugars in the red blood cells. Tese
toxic metabolites interere with the respirationo the cells. Tey cannot get sucient oxygen tosurvive and unction normally. In time, some o 
the cells die. Tis intereres with the unctiono a part o the body and is the beginning o 
degeerative disease.”
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Rened sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that whichnutritionists describe as “empty” or “naked”
calories. It lacks the natural minerals which are
 present in the sugar beet or cane. In addition,
sugar is worse than nothing because it drains
ad leaches the body o precious vitamis ad
minerals through the demand its digestion, de-
toxication and elimination make upon one’s
etire system.
So essential is balance to our bodies that wehave many ways to provide against the suddenshock o a heavy intake o sugar. Minerals such
as sodium (rom salt), potassium and magne-sium (rom vegetables), and calcium (romthe bones) are mobilised and used in chemi-
cal trasmutatio; eutral acids are produced
 which attempt to return the acid-alkaline bal-
ance actor o the blood to a more normal state.
Sugar taken every day produces a continu-
ously overacid coditio, ad more ad more
minerals are required rom deep in the body inthe attempt to rectiy the imbalance. Finally, in
order to protect the blood, so much calcium is
taken rom the bones and teeth that decay and
geeral weakeig begi.Excess sugar evetually aects every orga
in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver in
the orm o glucose (glycogen). Since the liver’s
by William Dufty Extracted and edited from his book,
Sugar Blues
WHY
 
SUGAR
 IS
 
 TOXIC
  TO THE
BODY
 
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capacity is limited, a daily intake o renedsugar (above the required amount o naturalsugar) soon makes the liver expand like a bal-loon. When the liver is lled to its maximum
capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the
blood in the orm o atty acids. Tese are tak-
en to every part o the body and stored in the
most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the
breasts ad the thighs. Whe these comparatively harmless places
are completely lled, atty acids are then dis-
tributed among active organs, such as the heart
ad kideys. Tese begi to slow dow; ally 
their tissues degenerate and turn to at. Te
 whole body is aected by their reduced ability,
and abnormal blood pressure is created. Te parasympathetic nervous system is afected;and organs governed by it, such as the smallbrain, become inactive or paralysed. (Normalbrain unction is rarely thought o as beingas biologic as digestion.) Te circulatory andlymphatic systems are invaded, and the qual-ity o the red corpuscles starts to change. Anoverabundance o white cells occurs, and the
creation o tissue becomes slower. Our body’s
tolerance and immunising power becomesmore limited, so we cannot respond properly 
to extreme attacks, whether they be cold, heat,mosquitoes or microbes.
Excessive sugar has a strong mal-efect onthe unctioning o the brain. Te key to or-derly brain unction is glutamic acid, a vitalcompound ound in many vegetables. Te B
 vitamins play a major role in dividing glutamic
acid into antagonistic-complementary com-
 pounds which produce a “proceed” or “control”
response in the brain. B vitamins are also manu-actured by symbiotic bacteria which live in our
intestines. When rened sugar is taken daily,
these bacteria wither ad die, ad our stock o 
B vitamins gets very low. oo much sugar makes
oe sleepy; our ability to calculate ad remem-ber is lost.
Sugar: Harmful to Humans and Animals
Shipwrecked sailors who ate and drank noth-ing but sugar and rum or nine days surely wentthrough some o this trauma; the tales they hadto tell created a big public relations problem or
the sugar pushers.
Tis incident occurred when a vessel carry-ing a cargo o sugar was shipwrecked in 1793.Te ve surviving sailors were nally rescued
ater beig marooed or ie days. Tey were
in a wasted condition due to starvation, having
cosumed othig but sugar ad rum.
Te eminent French physiologist F. Magendie
 was inspired by that incident to conduct a se-
ries o experiments with animals, the results o 
 which he published in 1816. In the experiments,he ed dogs a diet o sugar or olive oil and water.
 All the dogs wasted ad died.
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he shipwrecked sailors and the French physiologist’s experimental dogs proved thesame point. As a steady diet, sugar is worse
than nothing. Plain water can keep you alive or
quite some time. Sugar ad water ca kill you.
Humans [and animals] are “unable to subsist
o a diet o sugar”.
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Te dead dogs i Proessor Magedie’s labo-
ratory alerted the sugar industry to the hazards
o ree scietic iquiry. From that day to this,the sugar idustry has ivested millios o dol-
lars in behind-the-scenes, subsidised science.
Te best scientic names that money could buy have been hired, in the hope that they could one
day come up with something at least pseudo-
scientic in the way o glad tidings about sugar.
It has been proved, however, that (1) sugar
is a major actor i detal decay; (2) sugar i a
 person’s diet does cause overweight; (3) removalo sugar rom diets has cured symptoms o crip- pling, worldwide diseases such as diabetes, can-
cer ad heart illesses.
Sir Frederick Banting, the codiscoverer o 
insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that, amongsugar plantation owners who ate large amounts
o their rened stuf, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to
chew the raw cae, he saw o diabetes.
 
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H
owever, the story o the public relationsattempts on the part o the sugar manu-acturers began in Britain in 1808 when
the Committee o West India reported to the
House o Commos that a prize o twety-ve
guineas had been oered to anyone who could
come up with the most “satisactory” experi-
mets to prove that ureed sugar was goodor eedig ad atteig oxe, cows, hogs ad
sheep.
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Food or animals is oten seasonal, al-
 ways expesive. Sugar, by the, was dirt cheap.People were’t eatig it ast eough.Naturally, the attempt to eed livestock with
sugar and molasses in England in 1808 was adisaster. When the Committee on West Indiamade its ourth report to the House o Com-
mons, one Member o Parliament, John Curwin,
reported that he had tried to eed sugar andmolasses to calves without success. He sug-
gested that perhaps someoe should try agaiby seakig sugar ad molasses ito skimmed
milk. Had anything come o that, you can besure the West Indian sugar merchants would
have spread the ews aroud the world. Ater
this singular lack o success in pushing sugar incow pastures, the West Indian sugar merchants
gave up.
 With undaunted zeal or increasing the mar-
ket demand or the most important agricultural
 product o the West Indies, the Committee o  West India was reduced to a tactic that has
served the sugar pushers or almost 200 years:
irrelevant and transparently silly testimonials
rom araway, inaccessible people with some
kind o “scientic” credentials. One early com-
metator called them “hired coscieces”.
Te House o Commons committee was sohard-up or local cheerleaders on the sugarquestion, it was reduced to quoting a doctorrom araway Philadelphia, a leader o the re-
cent American colonial rebellion: “Te great Dr
Rush o Philadelphia is reported to have said
that ‘sugar contains more nutrients in the same
bulk than any other known substance’.” (Em-
 phasis added.) At the same time, the same Dr
Rush was preaching that masturbation was thecause o insanity! I a weasel-worded statementlike that was quoted, one can be sure no animal
doctor could be ound in Britain who wouldrecommend sugar or the care and eeding o 
cows, pigs or sheep. While preparig his epochal volume, A His-
tory o Nutrition, published in 1957, Proessor E.
 V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University), some-
times called America’s oremost nutritionist and
certainly a pioneer in the eld, reviewed ap-
 proximately 200,000 published scientic papers,
recordig experimets with ood, their proper-
ties, their utilisation and their efects on ani-
mals and men. Te material covered the period
rom the mid-18th century to 1940. From this
great repository o scientic inquiry, McCollum
selected those experiments which he regarded
as sigicat “to relate the story o progress i
discovering human error in this segment o sci-ence [o nutrition]”. Proessor McCollum ailed
to record a single controlled scientic experi-
met with sugar betwee 86 ad 40.
Unhappily, we must remind ourselves thatscientists today, and always, accomplish little
 without a sponsor. Te protocols o modern sci-
ence have compounded the costs o scientic
iquiry.
 We have no right to be surprised when weread the introduction to McCollum’s A His-tory o Nutrition and nd that “Te authorand publishers are indebted to Te Nutrition
Foundation, Inc., or a grant provided to meet a
 portio o the cost o publicatio o this book”. What, you might ask, is Te Nutritio Fouda-tio, Ic.? Te author ad the publishers do’t
tell you. It happens to be a ront organisationor the leading sugar-pushing conglomeratesin the ood business, including the American
Sugar Rening Company, Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola,
Curtis Candy Co., General Foods, General Mills,
Nestlé Co., Pet Milk Co. ad Sushie Biscuits-about 4 such compaies i all.
Perhaps the most signicant thing about
McCollum’s  history was what he let out:
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS MATERIAL, M

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