Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)
by Gary Taubes

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Author: Gary Taubes
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-23
ISBN: 1400033462
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Anchor

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Book Review: As I Wrote In My Syndicated Advice Column About Taubes' Book...
Summary: 5 Stars

The American diet is all wrong. An excerpt from my column on Taubes' work:

"The sad thing is, many women who are fat aren't that way thanks to a diet that's high in cupcakes, or because their fitness goal is avoiding ever going to the gym. In fact, their attempts to lose weight might be making them fat. Award-winning investigative science journalist Gary Taubes has discovered that we've been sold a bill of goods by the medical establishment, which based its advice to follow high-carb, low-fat diets on "science" instead of science. In Taubes' exhaustively researched book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories," he lays out substantive evidence that obesity is caused by carbs -- from flour, sugars, and easily digested starches like potatoes -- that cause insulin levels to rise. When insulin levels rise, we stockpile calories as fat. Eating foods with very low (or no) carbs -- meat, fish, poultry, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy veggies -- decreases appetite and increases fat loss and weight loss." -- [...]

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Summary of Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

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