People in this thread are conflating sugar consumption and blood sugar levels.
When healthy people eat sugar, insulin is secreted and the blood sugar goes right back down. Overweight and obese people with time develop type-2 diabetes so they produce less insulin and due to excess fat around cells, their muscles don't respond as well to insulin anymore and can't take up glucose from the blood. That causes spikes in blood sugar and elevated levels throughout the day.
The answer to blood sugar control is being lean, and you can get lean by eating less fat. The clue is in the name, really.
Google tells me that Americans consume on average 3.5g of salt, while the recommended intake is 2.3g. Quite some room there to decrease salt consumption.
I'm biased towards more practical books but here you go
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann - not in your circle of interest necessarily but not in your circle of non-interest either.
- Introduction to the Design & Analysis of Algorithms by Levitin - not very popular but a great book. Interestingly, it groups algorithms around design techniques e.g. decrease-and-conquer, divide-and-conquer, greedy, DP.
- Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne - great algorithms book if your main programming language is Java, I keep coming back to it.
When healthy people eat sugar, insulin is secreted and the blood sugar goes right back down. Overweight and obese people with time develop type-2 diabetes so they produce less insulin and due to excess fat around cells, their muscles don't respond as well to insulin anymore and can't take up glucose from the blood. That causes spikes in blood sugar and elevated levels throughout the day.
The answer to blood sugar control is being lean, and you can get lean by eating less fat. The clue is in the name, really.