Downsizing: Tackling Big Sugar

Chapter Seven of my Sunday Times best-selling book, Downsizing

When I woke up from a lifetime of abusing my body with a poor diet, I felt a little like Jim Carrey’s character at the end of The Truman Show.

When his boat struck the metal dome masquerading as a skyline, I was reminded of my own sense of dismay and disillusion after realising that, for decades, I’d effectively been duped.

Truman, like me, came to lear…