Lectures

University of Texas at San Antonio Provost’s Distinguished Lecture on 2012-02-08. Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and The Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity.

Authors@Google on May 2, 2011. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.

Why We Get Fat: IMS Online Lecture on 2010-08-12 (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Q&A 1 | Q&A 2 | Q&A 3 | Q&A 4.) .

University of Washington. Swedish Medical Center on 2010-04-15. Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and The Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity.

Dartmouth Medical School. Medicine Grand Rounds on 2009-06-05. Why We Gain Weight: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity.

Dartmouth University on 2009-06-05. (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7)

Stevens Institute of Technology on 2008-02-06. Big Fat Lies with Gary Taubes.

University of California, Berkeley on 2007-11-27. (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10)

Larry King Live with Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Mehmet Oz on 2007-10-19. (Part 1 | Part 2)

Books

Why We Get Fat (2011)

Why We Get Fat (paperback)

An eye-opening, paradigm-shattering examination of what makes us fat. In the New York Times best seller Good Calories, Bad Calories, acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates—not fats and not simply excess calories—have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience in this … [Read more]

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

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[released as The Diet Delusion in the U.K.] In Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes tries to bury the idea that a low-fat diet promotes weight loss and better health. Obesity is caused, he argues, not by the quantity of calories you eat but by the quality. Carbohydrates, particularly refined ones like white bread and pasta, raise insulin … [Read more]