{"id":42588,"date":"2014-02-14T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_a_british_professors_book_warned_about_the_dangers_of_sugar_in_1972\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T18:00:21","slug":"smh_a_british_professors_book_warned_about_the_dangers_of_sugar_in_1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42588","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) A British professor&#39;s book warned about the dangers of sugar in 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, an out-of-print book published in 1972 by a long-dead British professor suddenly became a collector&#8217;s item&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>How exactly did a long-forgotten book suddenly become so prized? The cause was a ground-breaking lecture called Sugar: the Bitter Truth by Robert Lustig, professor of paediatric endocrinology at the University of California, in which Lustig hailed [John] Yudkin&#8217;s work as &#8221;prophetic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Without even knowing it, I was a Yudkin acolyte,&#8221; says Lustig, who tracked down the book after a tip from a colleague via an interlibrary loan. &#8221;Everything this man said in 1972 was the God&#8217;s honest truth and if you want to read a true prophecy you find this book&#8230; I&#8217;m telling you every single thing this guy said has come to pass. I&#8217;m in awe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/diet-and-fitness\/john-yudkin-the-man-who-tried-to-warn-us-about-sugar-20140212-32h03.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, an out-of-print book published in 1972 by a long-dead British professor suddenly became a collector&#8217;s item&#8230;. How exactly did a long-forgotten book suddenly become so prized? The cause was a ground-breaking lecture called Sugar: the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42588\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,92,100,199,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-books","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}