The Case Against Sugar
We are, beyond question, the greatest sugar-consumers in the world, and many of our diseases may be attributed to too free a use of sweet food.
The New York Times, May 22, 1857
I am not prepared to look back at my time here in this Parliament, doing this job, and say to my children’s generation: I’m sorry, we knew there was a problem with sugary drinks, we knew it caused disease, but we ducked the difficult decisions and we did nothing.
GEORGE OSBORNE, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, announcing a tax on
sugary beverages, March 16, 2016
CONTENTS
Cover
Also by Gary Taubes Title Page
Copyright Dedication Epigraph
Author’s Note
INTRODUCTION Why Diabetes?
CHAPTER 1 Drug or Food?
CHAPTER 2 The First Ten Thousand Years
CHAPTER 3 The Marriage of Tobacco and Sugar
CHAPTER 4 A Peculiar Evil
CHAPTER 5 The Early (Bad) Science
CHAPTER 6 The Gift That Keeps On Giving CHAPTER 7 Big Sugar
CHAPTER 8 Defending Sugar
CHAPTER 9 What They Didn’t Know CHAPTER 10 The If/Then Problem: I
CHAPTER 11 The If/Then Problem:
II EPILOGUE How Little Is Still Too Much?
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