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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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Sweet Poison?

Is sugar the new tobacco, backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in diets, and making people very sick? Renowned journalist Gary Taubes, author of "Why We Get Fat," joins The Agenda to discuss his new book, "The Case Against Sugar."

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIn other words, the science itself makes clear that hormones, enzymes, and growth factors regulate our fat tissue, just as they do everything else in the human body, and that we do not get fat because we overeat; we get fat because the carbohydrates in our diet make us fat.

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What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?

I have learned that low-fat diets fail in clinical trials and in real life, and they certainly have failed in my life.

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Are You a Carboholic? Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough

I find it easier to avoid sugar, grains and starches entirely, rather than to try to eat them in moderation. The question is why.

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What Makes You Fat: Too Many Calories, or the Wrong Carbohydrates?

Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity—excessive calories or the wrong carbohydrates.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century.

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Minimal Carbs, Lots of Fat, Incredible Dieting Results—But Not Enough Science

Can a diet that has bacon at its centre, and shuns whole grains, actually be the key to a healthy waistline?

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Why We Get Fat

Gary Taubes, a nationally known science writer, gives a lecture about obesity. The event was held at New Brighton School and was sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Office of Education.

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The Case Against Sugar

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical society-wide, health-related problems.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOf all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have been hard-pressed to find one ultimately more damaging than calories-in/calories-out.

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