Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness

by Karen Throsby

Book Overview

In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play?

Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526151553
• ISBN13: 9781526151551
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.3"