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Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of what's making us fat - and how we can change - in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes' crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever. Obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical, society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup.

La science et la logique affrontent les mythes sur l'obésité dans le bestseller #1 du New York Times. Pourquoi grossit-on? Excellente question ! Ayant la nutrition comme centre d'interêt, le célèbre journaliste scientifique américain, Gary Taubes, était préoccupé par l'épidémie d'obésité aux États-Unis, cela l'encouragea à diriger sa propre enquête historique et scientifique, libre de tout stéréotype.