Taubes, Gary

This is thought-provoking and will interest healthcare professionals and students, dieticians, nutritionists, and diabetic/prediabetic patients looking for disease and treatment history and potential future treatment possibilities. What’s different about this exceptional book is that it doesn’t limit its angles to only diets, recipes, diagnosis, or managing blood sugar.

Narrator Mike Chamberlain's steady voice helps drive the point home without getting in the way of the information. ["This accessible book will be of particular interest to historians and health-conscious readers": LJ 10/15/16 review of the Knopf hc.]

This accessible book will be of particular interest to historians and health-conscious readers. Individuals seeking practical help in curtailing sugar in their diets would benefit from books such as Richard Jacoby's Sugar Crush. [See Prepub Alert, 6/13/16.]

Based on his studies of the literature of human metabolism, science journalist Taubes debunks the common but simplistic assumption that we gain weight because our caloric intake exceeds output...