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Language
English
Description
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 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,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 601 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Not another diet book: After seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, science writer Taubes shows that almost everything we believe about a healthy diet is wrong. We are taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more--yet we see unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
20 CDs (25.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes exposes common dieting misconceptions. Here, listeners will discover that everything they were ever taught about food and healthy eating is wrong.
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