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The Silent Killer

Damayanti Datta

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Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
05 July 2022

Personal & public health; Veterinary nutrition; Fitness & diet

India has a ravenous appetite for the sweet stuff, way above any other country, if both traditional and modern sugars are

counted. We also take excessive amounts of poor-quality carbohydrates, especially, refined cerealsike white rice and white

wheat, sugar-sweetened drinks and fruit juice, sweet treats and savouries, which ultimately turn into glucose, a simple

sugar the body uses for energy. And Indians today manifest an increased predilection for diseasesinked to sugar (and

the fat with which sugar is inextricablyinked): obesity to diabetes, heart disease to hypertension, cancers to dementia,

Covid-19 to black fungus.

Despite aong association with sugar, there has been very few attempts to understand sugar's hold in India. Books have

been written mainly on the sugar industry, some on diabetes andow-sugar diets. Sugar: The Silent Killer attempts to fill

theacunae. It attempts to demystify the way we eat now, the pre-eminence of refined sugar in our diet, what it does to us and what we can do to mitigate its malign influence. Weaving together history, culture and science, it seeks to analyse

why we have such an intimate relation with sugar, why it holds on to us so doggedly, why we do can't do without it,

even when we know it can harm us.

By: Damayanti Datta
Imprint: Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Dimensions: Height: 132mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9789355203007
ISBN 10: 9355203004
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Damayanti Datta has worn several hats over the years: a researcher, a teacher, a communicator, a correspondent, an editor and, now, an independent writer.

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Sugar

The Silent Killer

Damayanti Datta

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