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Refined Sugar: The Sweetest Poison of All Continued from page 79 masturbatory madness, psychiatrised for 11. Pauling, Linus, "Orthomolecular Psychiatry", Science, vol. 160, April 19, 1968, psvchosis. lobotomised for schizovhrenia. 11. Pauling, Linus, "Orthomolecular asturbd adness, psychiatrised f | masturbatory madness, psychiatrised for 5. tay" Science, vol. 160, April 19, 1968, psychosis, lobotomised for schizophrenia. pp. 265-271. How many patients would have listened if 12. Hoffer, Abram, "Megavitamin B3 Therapy the local healer had told them that the only — fo, Schizophrenia", Canadian Psychiatric thing ailing them was sugar blues? °° Association Journal, vol. 16, 1971, p. 500. 13. Cott, Allan, "Orthomolecular Approach to Endnotes the Treatment of Learning Disabilities", synop- 1. Martin, William Coda, "When is a Food a sis of reprint article issued by the Huxley Food—and When a Poison?", Michigan Institute for Biosocial Research, New York. Organic News, March 1957, p. 3. 14. Szasz, Thomas S., The Manufacture of 2. ibid. Madness: A Comparative Study of the 3. McCollum, Elmer Verner, A History of Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, Nutrition: The Sequence of Ideas in Harper & Row, New York, 1970. Nutritional Investigation, Houghton Mifflin 15. Tintera, John W., Hypoadrenocorticism, Co., Boston, 1957, p. 87. Adrenal Metabolic Research Society of the 4. op. cit., p. 88. Hypoglycemia Foundation, Inc., Mt Vernon, 5. op. cit., p. 86. New York, 1969. 6. Price. Weston A.. Nutrition and Physical Perhaps Tintera's untimely death in 1969 at the age of fifty-seven made it easier for the medical profession to accept discover- ies that had once seemed as far out as the simple oriental medical thesis of genetics and diet, yin and yang. Today, doctors all over the world are repeating what Tintera announced years ago: nobody, but nobody, should ever be allowed to begin what is called "psychiatric treatment", anyplace, anywhere, unless and until they have had a glucose tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar. So-called preventive medicine goes fur- ther and suggests that since we only think we can handle sugar because we initially have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and signals that they're worn out? Take the load off now by eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that soda pop you have in your hand. The mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical history. Through the centuries, troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession, locked up for insanity, tortured for Endnotes 1. Martin, William Coda, "When is a Food a Food—and When a Poison?", Michigan Organic News, March 1957, p. 3. 2. ibid. 3. McCollum, Elmer Verner, A History of Nutrition: The Sequence of Ideas in Nutritional Investigation, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1957, p. 87. 4. op. cit., p. 88. 5. op. cit., p. 86. 6. Price, Weston A., Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects, The American Academy of Applied Nutrition, California, 1939, 1948. 7. Hooton, Ernest A., Apes, Men, and Morons, Putnam, New York, 1937. 8. Shelton, H. M., Food Combining Made Easy, Shelton Health School, Texas, 1951, p. 32. 9. op. cit., p. 34. 10. Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, translated by R. Howard, Pantheon, New York, 1965. Editor's Note: This article is extracted and edited from the book, Sugar Blues, © 1975 by William Dufty; specifically, the chapters "In Sugar We Trust", "Dead Dogs and Englishmen" and "What the Specialists Say". The book was first published by the Chilton Book Company, Padnor, PA, USA. Warner Books, Inc., NY, published an edition in 1976 and reissued it in April 1993, but, as far as we understand, the book is currently out of print and the author, William Dufty, is deceased. 80 = NEXUS DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000