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The Case Against Sugar (Paperback)
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The Case Against Sugar (Paperback)
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Price R421
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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public health bodies is muddled, out of date, and frequently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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