The case against sugar / Gary Taubes.
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TextPublisher: London : Portobello Books, 2017Description: 365 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846276378 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Sugar -- Health aspects -- Popular works | Sugar-free diet -- Popular works | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingDDC classification: 613.2'8332 Summary: Gary Taubes investigates the history of nutritional science which, shaped by a handful of charismatic and misguided individuals, has for a hundred years denied the impact of sugar on our health. He exposes the powerful influence of the food industry which has lobbied for sugar's ubiquity and the extent that the industry has corrupted essential scientific research. He delves into the science of sugar, exposes conventional thinking that sugar is 'empty calories' as a myth, and finds that its addictive pleasures are resulting in worldwide consumption as never experienced before, to devastating effect.
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Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gary Taubes investigates the history of nutritional science which, shaped by a handful of charismatic and misguided individuals, has for a hundred years denied the impact of sugar on our health. He exposes the powerful influence of the food industry which has lobbied for sugar's ubiquity and the extent that the industry has corrupted essential scientific research. He delves into the science of sugar, exposes conventional thinking that sugar is 'empty calories' as a myth, and finds that its addictive pleasures are resulting in worldwide consumption as never experienced before, to devastating effect.
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