SWEETNESS AND LIGHT+PDF

Sugar is increasingly portrayed as the villain in a global diabesity epidemic, triggering demands for drastic cuts in consumption. Is such a regulatory change feasible, and would it even make sense? Sweetness and Light takes a broad look at the best of what is known ranging from photosynthesis and our gut microbes to the ongoing industrial revolution and genetically obese laboratory rats and concludes that the demonization of sugar, incidentally the worlds most efficient source of calories in terms of agricultural land, obscures the need to focus on a host of more complex and troublesome culprits of the worlds contemporary metabolic woes.