Here is a serious and convincing exhibition that shows that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium. With the backing of powerful lobbyists, sugar has intruded into our lives and, today, is the cause of multiple diseases; especially in the West, where diabetes has the highest prevalence of all time and obesity has reached epidemic proportions, both among adults and among the child population. Very well founded in scientific research, but with a direct and affordable style, Taubes delves into our long history of relationship with sugar, from its use as a preservative, as an ingredient in the manufacture of cigarettes, its replacement by high-grade corn syrup. fructose or its inclusion - unnoticed and unnecessary - in many of the products we eat and drink. From the scientific demonstrations on the addiction to the sweet, Taubes contributes a battery of arguments against the sugar, at the same time that corrects erroneous concepts on its consumption.