Should you cut out all sugar? Gary Taubz says absolutely. He joins us to talk about his

new book, The Case Against Sugar. The evidence that it is accelerating your demise in some

awful ways is compelling enough that you should at least experiment. What made Casanova more

than just a famed libertine? Anthony Gottlieb will tell us about Lauren Spurgreens' new book,

Casanova, the world of a seductive genius. He was a great adventurer, an enormous traveler,

constantly racing across Europe in coaches, mixed with all levels of society was involved in

financing, for example, founded and ran the French national lottery. Alexander Alter will give us

an update from the literary world. Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View. I'm Pamela Paul.

Gary Taubz joins us now to talk about his new book, The Case Against Sugar. Gary, thanks for being here.

Oh, thanks for having me. Your previous book was Why We Get Fat. Was it logical progression from fat to sugar?

Yes, clearly there have been a series of progressions because the first book was Good Calories,

Bad Calories, a dense, tome looking at the dietary triggers of chronic diseases in the world,

obesity, diabetes, heart disease. We had this idea that it's dietary fat. I discussed where

that came from and found out where it came from and then slowly converged on this idea that was an

alternative hypothesis that the primary problem with modern western diets is the carbohydrate content,

refined grains and sugars. Why We Get Fat Was And Effect the Airplane Reading

Polymical Version of Good Calories, Bad Calories because I had people writing me saying,

you know, this book changed my life, but it's unreadable. Could you write a book that can

be read? Yeah, exactly. So after I wrote it, a friend in New York sent me an email saying he was

on his flying to the Caribbean and he read it on the plane and was like, yes. What's so bad about

well potentially everything? Okay, what's so good about it? Let's start with, you know,

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