The case against sugar

"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose 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 e...

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Main Author: Taubes, Gary (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why diabetes?
  • Drug or food?
  • The first ten thousand years
  • The marriage of tobacco and sugar
  • A peculiar evil
  • The early (bad) science
  • The gift that keeps on giving
  • Big sugar
  • Defending sugar
  • What they didn't know
  • The if/then problem: I
  • The if/then problem: II
  • Epilogue: How little is still too much?.