Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat
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Gary Taubes on Big Fat Lies
NuSi
Check out Gary Taubes and Peter Attia’s new and promising nutrition research initiative – NuSi — which was initially funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation of Houston.
Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies
Gary Taubes — author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat — continues to expose the adverse — and still underappreciated — health impact of sugar.
Governmental promotion of obesity
Following on Peter Attia’s lecture from earlier this week, Gary Taubes lucidly explains in ten minutes how bad science led to poor governmental policy on nutrition.
Two essential reads
If you don’t read anything else this week, don’t miss what Byran Caplan and Gary Taubes wrote. First, Caplan provides a compelling case against helicoptor parenting based on, of all things, research into twins: But twin research has another far … Continue reading
Kolata on Good Calories, Bad Calories
NY Times nutrition columnist Gina Kolata (previous posts here) reviews Gary Taubes’ new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease (Knopf September, 2007), which was previewed earlier here. Kolata observes: His thesis, … Continue reading
What makes us healthy?
Gary Taubes, a writer for Science magazine, is the author of the soon-to-be-released book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease (Knopf September 25, 2007). He provides a don’t miss preview of his … Continue reading