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    The Case Against Sugar
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    The Case Against Sugar

    Written by Gary Taubes

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    About this audiobook

    From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé 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.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 27, 2016
    ISBN9781524709068
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    The Case Against Sugar
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    Gary Taubes

    Gary Taubes ist investigativer Journalist in den Bereichen Wissenschaft und Gesundheit sowie Mitbegründer der gemeinnützigen Organisation Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). Er ist Autor der Bücher Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It und Good Calories, Bad Calories. Taubes ist Preisträger des Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research und hat für seine journalistische Arbeit zahlreiche weitere Preise verliehen bekommen.

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    • 5/5
      Lots of good scientific reasons to avoid eating sugar and sugary processed foods
    • 4/5
      Well-written and meticulously researched, and I believe the subject is tremendously important.However, I thought the choice of what "crimes" of sugar to report was a bit unbalanced. The role of sugar in slavery and in the fabrication of cigarettes, interesting as they are in themselves, are not very relevant to the question whether we should investigate sugar further (which I feel is the main point of this book), nor to the question whether we should eat less sugar right now (which is almost as important). And if Taubes had left out those chapters, he would have had the time to go deeper into the subject of insulin resistance, which stays a bit vague. That is, he does make it very clear what the effects of insulin resistance are, but not what insulin resistance itself is. I had to look it up in Good Calories, Bad Calories.Nits picked. Well worth reading, but not as good as Good Calories, Bad Calories.
    • 1/5
      A bitter disappointment, this. The author gives a very thorough and detailed history of the various scientific assessments of sugar as a contributor to diabetes. But that's about it, really. I was expecting more of an investigation into the sugar industry today, and what we can do to wean ourselves off of this terrible 'drug'. The prevalence of sugar and HFCS in our diet is one of the great challenges of our time. This was a lost opportunity to turn the tide of science towards a solution. Gary Taube addresses the symptoms, but not the cure.
    • 3/5
      Not the book I was expecting. I found parts of it interesting but was not interested in all the controversy of good vs. bad that took up most of the book.
    • 5/5
      I'm convinced. Sugar is a slow but unpredictable killer, but we can't help but love it.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic summary of the dietary research. If you want to quit sugar, read this book.
    • 5/5
      This was a a great book! I’ve been off sugar for months know and feel so much better and now I know why!
    • 5/5
      Incredibly eye-opening. I was worried it might be over my head (too scientific, etc), but I kept up. This should be required reading for every adult, especially parents.
    • 5/5
      Perhaps one of the most important books in human nutrition and health written (thus far) in the 21st Century.
      Taubes provides us with a legal brief on "the case against sugar", and it is convincing. Well worth a listen.
    • 5/5
      The fact that you have a great way of saying it
    • 4/5
      A frankly terrifying study of the true causes of all "Western Diseases". Mr. Taubes makes the unpopular yet persuasive argument that sugar might very well be the primary cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, gout, Alzheimer's and cancer. He makes the analogy that sugar is to these diseases as cigarettes are to smoking. We all know sugar is bad for us, but the question is: How much is too much?
    • 5/5
      It's better than a crime work: I started reading it and I couldn't put it down.This book will explains how not to become diabeticIt's very simple: stop immediately eating sugar.Sugar is more dangerous than alcool and smoke combined.