Sugar Blues by William Dufty
I transcribed the following from a brilliant book by William Dufty, pages 89 to 92: Science writer A. W. Pezet, trained at Harvard and MIT was misdiagnosed and mistreated for ten years before he found a doctor who spotted the trouble, confirmed it with a GTT test, and took him off sugar. Pezet saw his symptoms fade. He asked some hard questions of his physician, Dr. E. M. Abrahamson. “Why do so many doctors know little or nothing about a constellation of symptoms which afflicts millions of people? If the diagnosis is so simple, and the removal of the cause of the symptoms is simpler still, what’s happened to medical education?” Pezet’s sense of mission deepended when he discovered that his wife suffered the same symptoms he had and quitting sugar gave her the same relief. The result was the Abrahamson-Pezet collaboration, a landmark volume: Body, Mind and Sugar, first published in 1951. Its sale of over 200,000 copies in hardcover was evidence of the intense public interest in the su...