Outlines compelling arguments about the health dangers of sugar, identifying the powerful lobbies behind its overuse while citing its role in a range of challenges from obesity to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Taubes takes on Big Sugar, from its inclusion into everything from cigarettes to bread, to its role in the US's diabetes epidemic and its continuing strain on public health. He explores the historical research into sugar and its relationship to diabetes, and how much of the science was later disproven. Scientists are still working to understand the mechanisms behind how the body processes, stores, and uses sugar. He lays out the path of the powerful sugar and high fructose corn syrup lobbies, as well as discusses the political and economic implications of bucking those lobbies. Taubes knowingly discusses the historical back and forth between salt, sugar, and fat as the bad guy of American's diets, much of this depending on what diet fad was going on when. Of special note is the epilogue, discussing the fact that no one really knows what a safe amount of sugar may be, and that the effects of sugar, like nicotine, may take years to show up in a most devastating manner. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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