Doba jedová 9 - Cukr – Taubes Gary (2018)

Is "white gold" really "white poison"? Have we become victims of unfathomable manipulation? It doesn't matter whether it's common beet, cane, or table sugar, the so-called sucrose, or high-fructose corn syrup. The consumption of this substance in all its forms is constantly rising; it is found in almost everything – in breakfast cereals, soft drinks, ice cream, and bread, and even in cigarettes. The aim of this book is to explain why sugars should be considered reasonably suspect and how we arrived at the current situation where: • one third of all adults suffer from obesity, • two thirds of adults are overweight, • nearly one in seven is diabetic, • and one in four to five dies of cancer. Until recently, the prevailing opinion was that "sweetening life" whenever we feel tired, stressed, or low on energy is perfectly normal and, above all, completely harmless. The author of this groundbreaking work, based on years of detailed investigative research that meets strict criteria for evidentiary material in court, is journalist Gary Taubes, originally a physicist who later focused on issues in medicine and nutrition science.