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Gary Taubes



Gary Taubes is an American investigative science and health journalist and low carbohydrate diet advocate. He has published numerous books and articles about the role of fat and sugar in the diet, including the bestselling book Good Calories, Bad Calories.

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

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.

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Is Sugar Killing Us?

Experts warn that it may have an outsize role in causing obesity and diabetes—thus increasing the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease.

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Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat

The film traces the origins of our beliefs about healthful and unhealthful food. Experts from all over the world talk about the problems as well as short and long term solutions. Among the many experts in the film are authors like Gary Taubes, Mark Sisson, and Melanie Warner.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe don’t get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we’re getting fat.

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The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating

The best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar reveals why the established rules about eating healthy might be the wrong approach to weight loss for millions of people, and how low-carbohydrate, high-fat/ketogenic diets can help so many of us achieve and maintain a healthy...

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The Diet Delusion

Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer.

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Is Sugar Toxic?

The history of the debate over the health effects of sugar has gone on far longer than you might imagine. It is littered with erroneous statements and conclusions because even the supposed authorities had no true understanding of what they were talking about.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not.

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Diet Doctor Podcast #1: Gary Taubes

Over the last two decades, investigative science journalist Gary Taubes has repeatedly put his tenacious, meticulous research and persuasive writing skills towards debunking the bad science and prevailing dogmas in nutrition.

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Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?

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