The shocking truth about sugar, the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick indeed
Gary Taubes is the co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative and the author of Why We Get Fat and The Diet Delusion. An award-winning science and health journalist, his writing has appeared in Discover, Science, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Nature and the British Journal of Medicine. He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers and is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He lives in Oakland, California.
Gary Taubes is the best writer on nutrition science in the world.
Anyone seeking to understand the role of sugar in our diets should
read this book
*Curious*
Like a terrier with a bone, [Taubes] won't let purveyors of this
bankrupt diet paradigm get away with a bit of pragmatic sugar
reduction tokenism... his clear and persuasive argument that
obesity is a hormonal disorder, switched on by sugar, is one that
urgently needs wider airing
*Observer*
Hard-hitting and important... you will find yourself looking at the
packet of golden caster in your cupboard and the elderflower
cordial in your fridge with new suspicion
*Sunday Times*
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