{"id":5765,"date":"2017-01-02T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2017-01-03T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T09:49:27","slug":"the-case-against-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2017\/01\/the-case-against-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Gary Taubes\u2019 latest book <em>The Case Against Sugar, <\/em>was published over the festive season and, as promised in the last newsletter of 2016, here\u2019s my take on it...<\/p>\n<p><strong>What if it\u2019s all been a big fat lie?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 7 July 2002, the New York Times published an article written by Taubes called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/07\/07\/magazine\/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html\">What if it\u2019s all been a big fat lie?<\/a>\u201d For the first time, someone had pieced together a coherent story connecting Atkins with public health dietary advice and Ancel Keys with carbohydrates and insulin. 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