I have been reading about sugar and it's detrimental effect's but all of what I could get was written in medical jargon and most where international.    I have been wading through it though and when I came across Sweet Poison I was so excited because it sounded like "the info I was seeking in a language I could easily retain".   Actually I (accidently) ordered The Quit Plan first and after it arrived I realised my mistake.  So, I ordered Sweet Poison and I was just so relieved to find that what I was learning was infact backed up by so many experiments and tests and I wasn't going to be wondering this "desert" of suspician about sugar with nothing to back me up.  
I have a huge job ahead of me cleaning out the sugar (fructose) from my family.   My husband is a huge sceptic but I can't blame him.   He has watched me for years try to loose weight and improve my health with nothing but failure behind me.    So it's okay for him to be suspicious that this will just be another 'costly' (financial and emotional and time) exercise with nothing but disappointment to show for it.    To my delight, with no push at all from me, two of my children are reading the first book and are absolutey enthralled  by the history (actually how short sugar's history is!) and by the very early findings and of course they feel confused by why the sugar companies won't make healthier food.   Today I had such a great "sign" that it was okay to take this journey.  The eldest of those two children -14yrs- came to me with his huge bag of lollies (1kg) he had bought as a treat for himself a week early and told me that after just a couple of chapters of the book he had decided he wasn't going to eat them he was going to throw them out :).    And then the younger child -12yrs- said he wasn't going to drink juice any more and it was okay if I didn't buy it, he was happy with water, milk or tea!!   Well, after this display of courage from people so young, I can now confidently go forward in taking my family with me on my "sugar free Journey".   10 years ago I took out a lot " added fats" from our diet and my dear husband didn't even realise until one day he saw me 'froiling' onions in preparation for spag bol.    He then thought back over the time (by then it was about 6 years into it) and realized I didn't use fats/oils when frying his eggs, cooking cakes, roasting the meats ... although I have always roasted vegetables in animal fat but buy not doing it very often (once per fornight only) because roast veg just have to be done right!   There were many more things that struck him....humm! and I quote him "thats probably why my colesterol had been going down the last few times I've had it tested"   Anyway, I am going to use 'all but - cold turkey' for me and slow removal and replacement on the rest of the family.    I keep you posted.   Donna