In only ten countries do people eat fewer than 25 grams of sugar a day. The Dutch, Hungarians, Belgians and Israelis are not far behind. The biggest consumers today are Chilean (see chart). The craving seems to be hard-wired: babies instinctively prefer sugar water to plain.Īs sugar shifted from being a “precious product” in the 11th century to a cheap staple in the 19th century, the food industry proceeded to binge on it, with unheeded consequences. Was it not Niall Ferguson, a British historian, who once described sugar as the “uppers” of the 18th century? A medieval recipe even suggests sprinkling sugar on oysters. Sugar is intoxicating in the same way that drugs can be, writes Mr Taubes. Likewise, diabetes-virtually unknown in China at the turn of the 20th century, but now endemic in 11.6% of the adult population, 110m in total. Cultures with diets that contain considerable fat, like the Inuit and the Maasai, experienced obesity, hypertension and coronary disease only when they began to eat profuse amounts of sugar. If, as he contends in one example, the most significant change in diets as populations become Westernised, urbanised and affluent is the amount of sugar consumed, then the conventional wisdom linking fat with chronic disease does not square up. It is detrimental to health, yet also defended by powerful lobbies. The author sets out to prove that because of its unique metabolic, physiological and hormonal effects, sugar is the new tobacco. Abetted by an industry that funded scientific research linking fat with coronary disease, sugar, the real culprit according to Mr Taubes, was allowed to slip off the hook. In “The Case Against Sugar” he argues that dietary fat was fingered for decades as the perpetrator of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. But it certainly spoils and savages people’s health, says Gary Taubes, an American science writer who has focused heavily on the ills of sugar over the past decade and is the co-founder of an initiative to fund research into the underlying causes of obesity. Sahitya Akademi Presents Award to Namita Gokhale for Things to Leave BehindĬonnect with us on facebook.“Sugar spoils no dish,” averred a 16th-century German saying.HarperCollins Publishers Presents The Freelance Way by Robert Vlach.Book Release: Midnight Doorways by Usman T.Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain to be Published by HarperCollins India. You wish to understand the adultery in the food industry across the world.You like reading books on health and food. This is a must-read book with history, facts, and cruel truths. How the sugar was consumed during the pandemic, how the industries made profits by putting public health at risk, and how every food dish we eat binds itself with added sugar are demonstrated clearly. The mention of diabetes as Madhumeha, which means Honey Urine in the Vedas, was utterly exciting. The misconceptions about maintaining the sugar levels in a body till the aftermath effects of using processed sugar are well explained in the book. This 200 pages book on sugar is a well-researched study that accounts for the dangers caused by this white poison called – Sugar. In this book, Sugar – The Silent Killer by writer and researcher Damayanti Datta, a wholesome history of sugar in the past generation till date is explained with facts, interesting stories, and words of caution. Before the invention of factory-made sugar, honey was also a significant source of sweetness in Indian life. Ironically, the concept of diabetes is also mentioned in ancient texts. The element called sugar enlists in the Rig Veda. Cultivating sugar cane and using the jaggery dates back to 3500 years old. Even in the epic Ramayana, Dasaratha gave his three wives the Payas (Payasam in South India – a sweet dish with milk and rice) as a solution for their pregnancy. Unlike in other countries, in India, every event is celebrated with a sweet dish at the beginning or end. Sugar – The Silent Killer by Damayanti Datta Order your copy of the book now from – Amazon | Flipkart
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