The Case Against Sugar

'Hard-hitting and important... you will find yourself looking at the packet of golden caster sugar in your cupboard and the elderflower cordial in your fridge with new suspicion, if not loathing' -- Bee Wilson, Sunday Times

'Like a terrier with a bone, [Taubes] won't let purveyors of this bankrupt diet paradigm get away with a bit of pragmatic sugar reduction tokenism. In order to firmly hammer the nails in the coffin of the case of sugar, he sets out to nail the lie on which it is predicated: that the tidal wave of obesity and type 2 diabetes sweeping the western world is caused by overconsumption and sedentary behaviour... Taubes isn't the only person to challenge the facile idea that we get fat simply because we consume more calories than we expend, but his clear and persuasive argument that obesity is a hormonal disorder, switched on by sugar, is one that urgently needs wider airing' -- Observer

'A devastating critique of the way the sugar industry has shaped nutritional science in its favour for more than a century' -- Financial Times

'Compelling... Perhaps at long last, sugar is getting its just desserts' --Economist

'Taubes's writing is both inflammatory and copiously researched. It is also well-timed... Hard-charging (and I'll add game-changing' -- New York Times

'[A] blitz of a book... Mr Taubes's argument is so persuasive that, after reading The Case Against Sugar, this functioning chocoholic cut out the Snacking Bar and stopped eating cakes and white bread.. The Case Against Sugar should be a powerful weapon against future misinformation' -- Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal

'A book stuffed with scientific detail... as a rallying call for long-term change, it's very hard to ignore' -- Literary Review

'Highly informative and extremely well-written' -- Delicious Magazine

'Gary Taubes is the best writer on nutrition science in the world. Anyone seeking to understand the role of sugar in our diets should read this book' --Ian Leslie, author of Curious

'Taubes's prose is perfectly judged, as compelling as a slow-motion car crash... Can Taubes's expertly written and disturbing book change [the] culture?... Full marks - and a big red lollipop - for making a valiant attempt' -- New Statesman

'An eye-opening read... Sobering [and] thought-provoking, not least for revealing how society has been led down a blind alley on matters of healthy eating' --Delicious Magazine

GARY TAUBES is the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories. He is a former staff writer for Discover and a correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous “Best of” anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and a co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). He lives in Oakland, California.