Gary Taubes

Author, GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease
Are you eating less but not losing weight? Join the crowd. Gary Taubes, award-winning journalist for SCIENCE MAGAZINE, presents convincing evidence debunking this notion. He flies in the face of 50 years of nutritional theory regarding weight loss. In his book, GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES, he argues persuasively that the solution to avoiding getting fat is not the number of calories eaten, but the kind. Should you doubt his hypothesis , look around at the escalating obesity epidemic. But find out for yourself. Listen to him on Getting Your Money's Worth with Judith West.

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[dynamicwellness33]

Taubes sites very credible sources in his book, not to mention common sense physiology which really can't be debated with. Taubes is a skilled health researcher, you don't need a degree to do and report on research.

Taubes explains the economic incentive in why his ideas aren't accepted in his new york times article "what if it was a big fat lie."

[bundleHastings]

I hope Gary can change the world. He is a good friend to obese people everywhere. He's given them the KEY to the lock that can get them out of their prison.

[deathgod836]

can i have starch in moderation?

[LittleEmoBoy001]

What you are missing is the fact that no study indicates that good saturated fats, I.E from Coconut oil, olive oil, cocoa are the culprits behind the negative effects of saturated fat. The fats used in those studies were refined and hydrogenated. There is good saturated fat and bad saturated fat, just as there are good carbs and bad carbs.

[dynamicwellness33]

I agree!

[manco82]

You don't have to be a PhD to use the scientific method. But the carbo-lobby would have you believe that...

[Pelonetillo]

this is the problem. its not so much that these doctors/nutritionists are wrong... theyre just not supplying the best answer. cutting calories will inadvertantly cause one to cut carbs as well. this is pretty much unavoidable.

[PsychopathInFoil]

I read some where once the the maximum amount of refined sugar a person should take in was about 40 grams. 1 coke cola contains 39 grams of refined sugar.

[moeffels]

One, read the book. The entire book presents evidence as is and he emphasizes more research and experiments, so I'm surprised at your claim that he's presenting a definite answer.

[dynamicwellness33]

You obviously have not read all of taubes book. The man researched and compiled information for 4 years.

And yes you can be a researcher with out a PHd. Taubes is a health journalist for the magazine Science and the New york times, he is simply presenting what is said over and over again in the literature.

If he was a journalist reporting on electrical engineering, that might be a different story.