What Not to Eat: ‘The Case Against Sugar’ - What if there was a Major Cover-up? Comparing the dangers of inhaling cigarettes with chowing down on candy bars may sound like false equivalence, but Gary Taubes’s “The Case Against Sugar” will persuade you otherwise. Here is a book on sugar that sugarcoats nothing. The stuff kills. Taubes begins with a kick in the teeth. Sugar is not only the root cause of today’s diabetes and obesity epidemics (had these been infectious diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have long ago declared an emergency), but also, according to Taubes, is probably related to heart disease, hypertension, many common cancers and Alzheimer’s. Name a long-term, degenerative disease, and chances are Taubes will point you in the same direction. Taubes has written extensively about diet and chronic illness, notably in a 2002 New York Times Magazine cover article that challenged the low-fat orthodoxy of the day. Taubes expanded the piece into two books, “Good Calories, Bad Calories” and, several years later, “Why We Get Fat,” in which he argued that the American medical establishment had bungled this century’s biggest health crisis. Bad science and the processed-food industry have colluded to make fat public enemy No. 1 — all the while neglecting carbohydrates, especially the highly processed and easily digested kind. And these are the real culprits in the expansion of our waistlines. In “The Case Against Sugar,” Taubes distills the carbohydrate argument further, zeroing in on sugar as the true villain. He implicates scientists, nutritionists and especially the sugar industry in what he claims amounts to a major cover-up. I certainly want to read this book myself still, but I have been following the various articles in the media the last year that have increasingly been pointing the finger towards sugar. That in itself is not the biggest issue - the issue for… http://bit.ly/2ipZ1tR
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