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.