Be the signal » John Yudkin http://bethesignal.org where we're going, we don't need roads... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:52:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 This is not a New Year’s Resolution http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/12/31/this-is-not-a-new-years-resolution/ http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/12/31/this-is-not-a-new-years-resolution/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:43:40 +0000 Jeff Waugh http://bethesignal.org/?p=1627 Continue reading →]]> It began as long as a year ago with a bit of anti-sugar advocacy from Denise, my mother-in-law… She suggested I read Sweet Poison, which is basically an Australian pop-science rediscovery of John Yudkin‘s Pure, White and Deadly — published in 1972. 1972!

My curiosity was reignited when Garrett recently tweeted a link to this fantastic lecture:

So I have a new analogue hacking project: I’m going to see if I can massively reduce the amount of sugar in my diet. Obvious targets #1 and #2: soft drinks and sweets.

Although they probably represent the vast majority of my sugar consumption, the rest of it is the ugly, insidious, sand-in-your-budgies sugar you’ll find in the strangest of foods… especially if you’re in the USA, given the HFCS damage.

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