Taubes's brilliant and accessible science writing has won him many fans." - Booklist, starred review " helps us understand how to make better decisions regarding sugar as individuals and as a nation." - Library Journal "The obesity epidemic is an ever-growing threat to the overall health of our nation. He once again presents a compelling argument that will challenge our knowledge about the connection between food and health-it's a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the impact of the ingredients we eat." -Nathan Myhrvold, lead author of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, "Staggering.
Gary Taubes has become an important voice in the debate surrounding nutrition. It's a carefully reasoned, persuasive account of how doubts about sugar in the modern diet were systematically overlooked for over a century. " helps us understand how to make better decisions regarding sugar as individuals and as a nation." - Library Journal " The Case Against Sugar is just that. 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. 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. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems. 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.
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos 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.
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