A Sugarless Planet
One day of the year 2000, my life changed: in a little shop of organic food and lifestyle healthy habits near Milan I bought a little but wonderful book: Sugar Blues by William Dufty
The book Sugar Blues
I already knew the author. William Dufty * was an American writer who wrote a sweet Billie Holiday’s biography that I read some years before: Lady Sings the Blues
Before the book, in the 1960s he met Gloria Swanson * «who introduced him to the macrobiotic culture and convinced him that white sugar was unsafe. (…) Dufty and Swanson were married, she for the sixth time, he for the second time, in 1976. (…) It was, however, the marriage of his devotion to healthy eating, spirituality and writing for which he is best known. Dufty practiced and promoted macrobiotics; a low-fat, high-fiber diet of whole grains, vegetables, sea algae, and seeds, that are prepared in accordance with specific principles, said to synchronize eating habits with the cycles of nature.»
I started my own crusade against white sugar too. Instead of white sugar, I use honey, or maple syrup, or malted barley. I lost about 10 kilos (22 pounds) in 1 year. Eventually, I found the passion for life.
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