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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Taubes, Gary (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Sugar-free diet > Case studies. Sugar > Physiological effect > Popular works. Nutritionally induced diseases > Popular works. HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition. SCIENCE / Chemistry / General. Nutritionally induced diseases. Sugar-free diet. Sugar > Physiological effect. Case studies. Popular works.

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?.