Garry Boulden: I was an investigative journalist and a investigative science journalist. My specialty was controversial science. In the late nineties, i literally stumbled into this controversy over whether a salt causes high blood pressure. And i spent the next ten years of my life doing nothing but research to figure out what might be reliable knowledge. So can you talk us through the argument he's making in the case against sugar your new book?
To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about the food we eat, in this archive discussion from 2017, Intelligence Squared brought together some of the world’s leading experts on the science of human nutrition and health. Joining our host Dr Xand van Tulleken to pick apart food truths and myths were GP and broadcaster Sarah Jarvis, computational biologist Eran Segal, Professor of genetic epidemiology Tim Spector, and award-winning science and health writer Gary Taubes.
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