Autorenprofil

Gary Taubes is the co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative and the author of Why We Get Fat and The Diet Delusion. An award-winning science and health journalist, his writing has appeared in Discover, Science, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Nature and the British Journal of Medicine. He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers and is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He lives in Oakland, California.

Produktbeschreibung

The shocking truth about sugar, the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick indeed

Klappentext

An exploration into the shocking truth behind the threat of sugar, how much we are consuming and the devastating effects it is having on our health. Drawing on expert science and compelling storytelling, Taubes investigates the history of nutritional science and exposes the powerful - and dangerous - influences of the food industry today.