Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this book thinking it would provide me with relevant information about how sugar is bad for you and what foods cause related problems. Sadly that isn't the goal of this book despite what you might think after reading the previews. This book is a 200 page history of sugar and civilization - discovery, manufacturing, marketing, economics, regulation, etc - followed by 25 pages or so of somewhat relevant information. If you really want to the name of the scientist that did research on sugar and fat production or the name of the company that set up in Africa to export the stuff, then maybe this is the book you are looking for. That isn't what I wanted. What I wanted was to know how sugar was harmful, what the negative pathways were, and whether other similar foods had similar issues. There is a small amount of that in the last 25 pages but its tucked into yet more excessive narative so it's not much fun trying to dig it out. The author wanted to write a long story. This book should have been called "The Story of Sugar". That would have been an honest title. If the author wanted to write a book titled "The Case Against Sugar", he could have done so in about 12 pages by providing dense, pertinent information to the reader.