This Book Could Save Your Life Quotes

“You can also blanch potatoes before roasting or frying them. This removes half the sugar, resulting in lower levels of acrylamide.”
― Graham Lawton, This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better

“In 1700, the average English household consumed less than two kilograms of table sugar a year. By the end of the century that amount had quadrupled, and the upward trend has continued largely unbroken ever since. Between the early 1970s and the early 2000s, adults in the US increased their average daily calorie intake by 13 per cent, largely by eating more carbohydrates, including sugar. Today, yearly sugar consumption in the US is close to forty kilograms per person – more than twenty teaspoons a day.”
― Graham Lawton, This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better