The Case Against Sugar

He explains what research has shown about our addiction to sweets. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup. He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as individuals and as a society.. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Taubes Delivers Shot Across The Bow Challenging Big Sugar With Facts And History If an investigative journalist could choose any other career to use their talents and gifts, then it would most likely be that of an attorney. They possess the natural skills for digging deeply into arguments and making compelling statements for the prosecution. That's precisely what New York Times bestselling author and science writer Gary Taubes has done in his soon-to-classic book The Case Against Sug. SUGAR kills I always think when I read these things that support Dr. Atkins now SUGAR kills CheeryToes I always think when I read these things that support Dr. Atkins now 40 year old beliefs, that I wish he hadn't died before he was vindicated. Sugar in all it's forms will kill you, will cause inflammation - basically, the more you eliminate it from your life the better off your health will be. Gary Taubes does a great amount of research in this book, like he has his others and shows us how we've been sol. 0 year old beliefs, that I wish he hadn't died before he was vindicated. Sugar in all it's forms will kill you, will cause inflammation - basically, the more you eliminate it from your life the better off your health will be. Gary Taubes does a great amount of research in this book, like he has his others and shows us how we've been sol. Sugar is as bad as tobacco This book is not an actual diet/nutrition book. It is more of a historical/political book. I enjoyed reading it and I was surprised, (well, not that surprised) to see how hard the sugar industry works to promote a product that has probable damaging health aspects.This book also talks about the criticisms of sugar that have been around for decades, centuries, and longer. People who study such things have

He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and a co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). . His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous “Best of&

As a journalist, an investigator, a scientist, and an advocate, he is without peer. Taubes methodically explains why sugar—not sloth, not fat—accounts for our unprecedented levels of obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Taubes answers every counter-argument as he exposes bad research, reveals conflicts of interest, and explodes myths.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project“I am grateful beyond words for Gary Taubes's courageous and meticulous documentation of the health dangers of sugar. It’s a carefully reasoned, persuasive account of how doubts about sugar in the modern diet were systematically overlooked for over a century. The information in this book will, quite literally, save your life if you apply it." —Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom“If yo