Each of these substances has been refined from its original state in order to “heighten its rush.” Dopamine release declines over time with consumption, so the body wants more to get that same rush. Of the many effects shown from eating sugar, one involves our brain’s reward center which responds to sugar just as it does to nicotine, cocaine, heroin and alcohol. Taubes argues that they are both harmful. In the 1970s High Fructose Corn Syrup, HFCS, was introduced and replaced a lot of sucrose in the American diet of industrial processed foods. This is not just table sugar, sucrose, but all the other “carbohydrate molecules” that have “ose” in its spelling – including High Fructose Corn Syrup and over fifty more. The Case Against Sugar is his latest published work, and in it, sugar is the prime suspect for the prosecution. In years of reading on the subjects of health and nutrition, I’ve discovered just how respected Taubes is for his skill in ferreting out the underlying political and economic issues revolving around health policy.
It turns out, he only writes books that quickly become classic, authoritative tomes. Taubes has carried out nearly two decades of research into the history of nutrition, obesity and diabetes. When I first read a couple of Gary Taubes books a few years ago, Good Calories, Bad Caloriesas well as Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, I had no idea he was such an influential and foundational researcher on the topic of health and bad science.
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