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b'Obesity, diabetes, heart disease \\u2026 maybe even Alzheimer\\u2019s.\\xa0Could these modern scourges have a common denominator?\\xa0Some people believe they do: sugar.\\nBut is this accusation warranted?\\xa0We talk with a journalist who has spent two decades reporting on nutrition science, and while he says there\\u2019s still not definitive proof that sugar makes us sick, he can make a strong case for it.\\nAlso, how a half-century ago the sugar industry secretly paid Harvard scientists to shift the culprit for heart disease from their product to dietary fat.\\xa0We hear how the companies borrowed from the playbook of Big Tobacco.\\nSo is your sweet tooth a threat to your health?\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nGary Taubes\\u2013 Investigative reporter and the author of\\xa0The Case Against Sugar.\\n\\n\\nCristin Kearns\\u2013 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.\\n\\n\\nNaomi Oreskes\\u2013 Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, and the co-author of\\xa0Merchants of Doubt.\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'