The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Sugar's Day is done.

A primal review of Gary Taub's latest treatise, the case against sugar.

In 2002, Gary Taubbs penned a New York Times piece that questioned the legitimacy of the presiding

low-fat dogma. His article made a persuasive case for the safety and metabolic urgency of eating more animal

fat and fewer carbs. It shifted the national conversation on healthy eating and paved the way

for the rise of the ancestral health community. If the experts were that wrong about a healthy

diet, what else were they getting wrong? He expounded the arguments

in the Times piece in his next two books, Good Calories, Bad Calories, and Why We Get Fat. The first,

which utterly demolished the conventional wisdom about saturated fat was deeply influential for me.

In this latest book, The Case Against Sugar,

Tubs lays out a convincing case for sugar as the primary cause of obesity, diabetes, and other

degenerative diseases of civilization. Many Tops critics make a mistake. They take him too

literally quibbling on details while missing the big picture.

The way he recommends people eat helps them lose weight.

It just works.

When he blames the governmental push against saturated fat and cholesterol for their purported

crimes against the heart and waistline, he's not saying the USDA literally said

sugar was fantastic to eat. Although bureaucrats did recommend hard candy, gumdrops, sugar, syrup,

honey, jam, jelly, marmalade, and other high-sugar foods as good low-fat snack options.

He's saying that the full-throated demonization of fat overshadowed everything else they were saying,

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