Event

Sugar Spin

Sponsored by the Meredith College Master of Science in Nutrition, this event will feature a short screening of the documentary, Sugar Coated: how the food industry seduced the world one spoonful at a time.

After the screening, remarks will be provided by Gary Taubes, cofounder and senior scientific advisor of the Nutrition Science Initiative(NuSI). He is an award-winning science and health journalist, the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science. His newest book, The Case Against Sugar, was published in 2016. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous Best of anthologies,including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). Taubes has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.

Notice to Meredith College alumni:
You are invited to a pre-event reception with the author at 5:30pm in the Johnson Hall Rotunda. Please email the Alumnae House at: alumnae@meredith.edu for a ticket to the reception which will also be your ticket into the event.