Summary
"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 e... Full description
- 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?.