David Gillespie

David Gillespie is an Australian lawyer, anti-sugar activist and low-carbohydrate diet author who has written several books about health and nutrition. Gillespie admits to no qualifications in nutrition or medicine. Gillespie's advocacy for a diet high in saturated fat and his erroneous claim that polyunsaturated fat from vegetable oil is toxic have been criticized by medical experts as dangerous, misleading and wrong. Books Gillespie has authored a number of books in the nutrition and self-help genre. Sweet Poison, Why Sugar Makes Us Fat is Gillespie's first book which tells the story of how and why he stopped eating sugar. This was followed by the publication of The Sweet Poison Quit Plan, the 'how to' supplement to Sweet Poison; The Sweet Poison Quit Plan Cookbook, a supplementary book of recipes for sweets made with dextrose instead of fructose and The No Sugar Recipe Book, which is the UK edition of the cookbook under a different title. Several Sugar Free Shopper's Guides were first published in 2014 and updated in 2016, for the Australian, North American and British markets. Following the commercial success of his anti-sugar books, Gillespie published Toxic Oil: Why Vegetable Oil Will Kill You And How To Save Yourself which examines what he believes are the dangers of eating vegetable oil.