Damayanti Datta

Researcher | Author | PhD in history from Cambridge University

About: Writer, editor, journalist and research scholar, Ms Damyanti Datta seeks to demystify the way India eats, the pre-eminence of refined sugar in our diet, what it does to us and what we can do to mitigate its malign influence. Weaving together history, culture and science, this work seeks to analyse why we have such an intimate relation with sugar, why it holds on to us so doggedly, and why, knowing it can harm us, we can’t do without it.

BOOK

Name: Sugar : The Silent Killer

Description:

Despite a long association with sugar, there has been very few attempts to understand sugar’s hold in India. Books have been written mainly on the sugar industry, some on diabetes and low-sugar diets. Sugar: The Silent Killer attempts to fill the lacunae. It attempts to demystify the way we eat now, the pre-eminence of refined sugar in our diet, what it does to us and what we can do to mitigate its malign influence. Weaving together history, culture and science, it seeks to analyse why we have such an intimate relation with sugar, why it holds on to us so doggedly, why we do can’t do without it, even when we know it can harm us.