Here is a review I just wrote at Amazon
https://www.amazon.com.au/review/R39GSGPLETNYPQ/ref=pe_1168592_181361312_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv
David Gillespie’s two books Sweet Poison and Big Fat Lies explain the paradigm shift now occurring in nutrition science. In the old false paradigm, scientists argued that eating animal fat makes you fat. In the new correct paradigm for nutrition, eating sugar and seed oil makes you fat, while animal fat is okay. As well as causing obesity, sugar, with its associated industry of seed oil, is the main cause of the epidemics of obesity, heart disease, cancer, tooth decay, diabetes and dementia. We are poisoning ourselves because we have been sold lies by the food industry and its supporters such as Heart Associations. The pharmaceutical industry is also part of the problem, making much of its money from drugs that address the symptoms of sugar consumption. The simple answer to fix our health is to stop eating sugar and seed oil.
This massive world health problem is an excellent example of what the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn described in his great 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn explained that in scientific revolutions a new correct theory only gains acceptance with difficulty, with adherents of the old false theory refusing to accept their error. Examples are astrophysics (Newtonian mechanics replaced by relativity), biology (Darwin’s theory of evolution), and geology (Wegener’s work on plate tectonics). Such theories produce what Kuhn called a paradigm, a framework of ideas that aims to give a full explanation for everything related to the topic. Because old paradigms are wrong, anomalies start to get noticed. Then a new hypothesis comes along which explains the anomalies by pointing out the mistakes in the old theory.
A paradigm shift away from eating fructose, which is the poisonous ingredient in sugar, is now required in the science of nutrition. The scientific explanation starts with the discovery that our liver metabolises sugar into fat but our appetite hormones do not register fructose, so we pile on the pounds without noticing. Many big scientific studies have then shown that eating sugar causes numerous health problems, while eating saturated fat is perfectly okay. Sweet Poison and Big Fat Lies, together with a wide range of excellent books by other authors arguing the same scientific point, provide excellent and alarming information about the pervasive stranglehold that sugar has suddenly gained in our diets, in evolutionary terms. We need to return fructose to its former dietary status as a very rarely eaten delicacy.
