PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewTaubes distills the carbohydrate argument further, zeroing in on sugar as the true villain. He implicates scientists, nutritionists and especially the sugar industry in what he claims amounts to a major cover-up. Taubes’s writing is both inflammatory and copiously researched. It is also well timed ... Here is where Taubes is at his most persuasive, tracing sugar’s unique and intractable place in the American diet.
