Cleave Yudkin Jenkins Taubes
Where we are on the timeline
After The Food Pyramid, the modern reckoning becomes explicit. Critics of refined carbohydrate, sugar, glycemic response, and institutional nutrition advice challenge the grain-first settlement from different directions.
This chapter is not a martyr story.
The historical claim is strong: Cleave, Yudkin, Jenkins, and Taubes made refined carbohydrate visible in different ways. The scientific claim is mixed: some concerns are now mainstream, some remain debated, and some were overstated. The cultural claim is modest: arguments against refined bread met a culture already trained to treat bread as basic.
Sections
- Four Voices Four Claims
- Cleave And Refined Carbohydrate
- Yudkin Sugar And Resistance
- Jenkins Glycemic Index
- Taubes And The Public Argument
Cross Links
- What The Evidence Can Bear set the limits for metabolic claims.
- Six To Eleven Servings shows the public grain baseline these critiques entered.
- Celiac Gluten and the 2017 Vatican Ruling will separate gluten disease from refined-carbohydrate critique.