Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-349) and indexĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:49:06 Boxid IA40137417 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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?
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 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.
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