1 of 10 UC Berkeley: Gary Taubes 11/7/2007

http://www.diet-blog.com/share/2009/06/where-does-gary-taubes-go-wrong---if-a... http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=36326&hl=taubes The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care
November 27, 2007, 04:00PM
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Gary Taubes is a science journalist who has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Esquire, GQ, Science, and many others. He has won the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award three times.

His 2001 article, "The Soft Science of Dietary Fat," published in Science, was followed by "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" which saw print in 2002 in the New York Times Magazine. His book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, has just been released.

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Gary Taubes is what Galileo was to Copernicus. He has basically taken the discovery of scientists prior to him, who stated that insulin causes fat accumulation, and has made that ignored information known to the masses, and for his generosity, he is experiencing a backlash from those who uphold the prevailing orthodoxy of calories in vs. calories out. I guarantee you, that a generation from now, Taubes will be revered as a science revolutionary along with Atkins, Yudkin, and Lustig.

[pattynads]

Taubes’s mention of General Mill’s donations to Harvard opened my eyes to the huge influence corporations can have on top research institutions. This is an unavoidable consequence of the fact that scientific endeavors require huge amounts of time and money. I am also surprised about the scientific validity of the Atkins diet and the examples Taubes used to counter popular conceptions of obesity e.g. the Fat Louisa paradox and early twentieth century research on adiposity.

[aymanballu1]

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[rajon143]

gary Taubes ..go on..

[spin2knitnweave]

Gary Taubes is my hero!

[worldsmost]

movember gary? :o=)

[PairoftheSocks]

@bobdylan4evr On the kidney thing, just make sure you drink lots of water and EXERCISE. It helps keep your ketone level natural.

[bobdylan4evr]

@Jugglable it depends how fast you want to lose weight. if your quite fat you may want to go ketogenic, limit your carbs intake to no greater than 50 per day. however if you have kidney problems dont because it adds extra stress to your kidneys because some of the ketone bodies in your blood are passed through urine. on the other hand if you have maybe 20 or so pounds to lose just limit your self to around 100 per day it doesnt have to be exact. once you've hit your goal weight try 150 daily

[Jugglable]

How do I know how many carbs to eat to lose weight?

[rast123456789]

@lazur1 oh ok lol

[lazur1]

@rast123456789 When did -I- ever say you -couldn't- lose weight & be strong on a high protein, high fat, low carb diet? Obviously ,many people have lost weight this way, from Atkins to Paleo, & other similar diets. All I did was mention another option that's working equally well for many people.

[rast123456789]

@lazur1 how do you explain my high protein high fat low carb weight loss and I am strong to