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Gary Taubes

The Case Against Sugar

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More than half a billion adults and 40 million children on the planet are obese. Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic. Evidence increasingly shows that these illnesses are linked to the other major Western diseases: hypertension, heart disease, even Alzheimer's and cancer, and that shockingly, sugar is likely the single root cause. Yet the nutritional advice we receive from public health bodies is muddled, out of date, and frequently contradictory, and in many quarters still promotes the unproven hypothesis that fats are the greatest evil.With expert science and compelling storytelling, 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 — the Sugar Association even today promoting 'sugar's goodness' — 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. The Case Against Sugar is a revelatory read, which will fundamentally change the way we eat.
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2016
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  • Evgeny Smaginцитирует4 года назад
    The diet that many public-health authorities believe is the healthiest is known as DASH—Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The authors of the first study on DASH described it as “rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy foods and with reduced saturated fat and total fat.” A primary goal of this dietary prescription is to provide significant potassium, magnesium, and calcium, with the assumption that this in turn will lower blood pressure. But it also prohibits sugar, sweets, and sugary beverages other than fruit juices. Its benefits may come as much from that restriction as any other
  • Evgeny Smaginцитирует4 года назад
    Ultimately and obviously, the question of how much is too much becomes a personal decision, just as we all decide as adults what level of alcohol, caffeine, or cigarettes we’ll ingest. I’ve argued here that enough evidence exists for us to consider sugar very likely to be a toxic substance, and to make an informed decision about how best to balance the likely risks with the benefits
  • Evgeny Smaginцитирует4 года назад
    If it takes twenty years of either smoking cigarettes or consuming sugar for the consequences to appear, how can we know whether we’ve smoked or consumed too much before it’s too late?

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