The Case Against Sugar (U)

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 Than Ever; Obesity Is At Epidemic Proportions; Nearly 10% Of Children Are Thought To Have Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. And Sugar Is At The Root Of These, And Other, Critical Society-wide, Health-related Problems. 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. He Explains What Research Has Shown About Our Addiction To Sweets. 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-- 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?. Gary Taubes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.