The case against sugar by Gary Taubes is his third book on the theme of nutrition following on from “Why We Get Fat” and “Good Calories, Bad Calories”. In this edition Gary levels his strongest accusations that the key problem in western diets is our huge sugar and refined carbohydrate intake. Gary traces the evidence over time regarding the slow and insidious weight that is being packed on around the globe and asserts that this trend beings at the moment that refined carbohydrate intake starts to increase.

Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss is an investigatory report into processed food industry practices that was published in 2013. The book is American-centric and doesn’t necessarily hold across all cultures and nations but in so much as America is a cultural harbinger for a lot of the world it is worthwhile using them as a case study. But first, a caveat, Moss is not a scientist, he approaches the work from a journalistic bent and I found some of his writing on some of the more scientific elements to be alarmist and a touch misleading at times.