Interested in the health effects of sugar? The impact of the sugar industry in politics?
Join us today, 5:00-6:15 pm, in Silsby 028

7th Annual C. Everett Koop Distinguished Lecture: “The Case Against Sugar”

Book signing of The Case Against Sugar to follow

Co-sponsored by the C. Everett Koop Institute, the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences


 Gary Taubes, Journalist, Co-founder, Nutrition Science Initiative


Lecture Description:
Gary Taubes will discuss his latest book, The Case Against Sugar. He will discuss the sugar industry’s role in influencing public policy and the research agenda, and the (likely) relationship between sugar, weight gain and loss, diabetes and the associated chronic diseases. Mr. Taubes will inform the audience about how to think about making informed decisions on sugar as individuals and as a society.

Speaker Bio:
Gary Taubes is cofounder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). He's an investigative science and health journalist, the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous Best of anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.