Good Calories, Bad Calories

By Gary Taubes

Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting

In this 2007 book, science journalist Gary Taubes argues that decades of dietary advice promoting low-fat diets were wrong. Taubes contends that refined carbohydrates such as white flour, sugar and starches drive obesity, diabetes, heart disease and possibly cancer by raising insulin levels. He argues that overeating and inactivity are effects of weight gain rather than its causes, and traces how nutrition science came to blame fat. The book was published as The Diet Delusion in Britain and Australia.

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• Bill Gurley: “Taubes' 2008 New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories. Taubes, a successful science journalist and researcher, obliterates the past 30-40 years of medical rhetoric when it comes to diet and nutrition.”
• Shane Parrish: “If you want to learn more about the science behind why we get fat, I recommend brushing up on your biology a little and reading Why We Get Fat. Taubes also wrote Good Calories Bad Calories.”