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Informationen zum Autor John Yudkin (1910-95) was a British physiologist and nutritionist, whose books include This Slimming Business , Eat Well, Slim Well and This Nutrition Business . He became internationally famous with his book Pure, White and Deadly, first published in 1972, and was one of the first scientists to claim that sugar was a major cause of obesity and heart disease. Klappentext John Yudkin (1910-95) was a British physiologist and nutritionist, whose books include This Slimming Business , Eat Well, Slim Well and This Nutrition Business . He became internationally famous with his book Pure, White and Deadly, first published in 1972, and was one of the first scientists to claim that sugar was a major cause of obesity and heart disease. Robert H. Lustig , MD has spent the past twenty years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the University of California, San Francisco Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society. His YouTube video lecture, 'Sugar: The Bitter Truth', has received over six million hits, and his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease was first published in 2012. Zusammenfassung Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, the author explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better than white? - to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods, and how it is damaging our health.
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Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, this book explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better for us than white? - to how it is sneakily inserted in our everyday foods. Telegraph, Top 10 Diet Books
