Margit Silverman

Sugar Toxic: the Dirty Fuel That Impairs Brain Function and Makes Us Fat Margit Silverman

Publisher Marketing: ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE GLUCOSE AND FRUCTOSE IN SUCROSE AND HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP ARE EQUALLY DESTRUCTIVE IN THEIR OWN WAY? Sugar Toxic is the thought-provoking story of one woman's resolve to eliminate sugar from her life. In late 1997, determined to understand the source of the chronic migraines that plagued her, Margit Silverman found herself confronted by an undeniable truth; refined sugar is a neurotoxin that throws a monkey wrench into carbohydrate metabolism. While fructose has deservedly become the subject of much investigation and criticism, glucose has managed to remain unobtrusively on the sidelines as the benign other half of the equation. Until now. In this carefully researched detective story, Silverman pulls glucose - fructose's sinister sidekick - out of the shadows, revealing how refined sugar wreaks havoc on the very underpinnings of our biochemistry. With an emphasis on research that has been tucked away between the pages of scientific journals for decades, she pries open the Pandora's box. From sugar's involvement in the development of obesity and diabetes to its spine chilling contribution to Alzheimer's dementia, Sugar Toxic strips sugar - every last molecule of it - of its social cache and will forever change the way you look at this destructive substance.