Sugar Blues

The book reviews the history of the world from the point of view of sugar, sounding the alarm of its deleterious and debilitating effects.

The chapters are: Dufty's wife, Gloria Swanson, traveled the United States to promote the book in 1975.

A student of depression avoidance included Sugar Blues as one of its "books which treat either primarily or in particular chapters the role of nutritional and dietary factors in the promotion of mental well-being and prevention of disorder...on the role of diet in particular disorders...functional hypoglycemia (Duffy [sic] 1975).

When Seaman started in the job, Dufty’s book loomed large:[5] A food science educator listed Sugar Blues as a sample text to stimulate critical thinking necessary to become a food scientist: A practitioner of integrative medicine, Tris Trethart MD, was interviewed by the medical journal Integrative Medicine and he explained:[7] Censorship analyst Heather Hendershot and historian Mark Pendergrast have criticized the book for comparing sugar to drugs and suggesting its role in a variety of illnesses including bubonic plague.

[8][9] The extreme range of maladies Dufty assigns to sugar has been used to make the indictment appear absurd:[10]