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ABOUT GARY TAUBES

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of Rethinking Diabetes (2024), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About ...

Books

Rethinking Diabetes (2023)

An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author, Gary Taubes. … [Read more]

The Case For Keto (2020)

Gary Taubes 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 weight for life. … [Read more]

The Case Against Sugar (2016)

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. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar … [Read more]

Why We Get Fat (2011)

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)

[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]

Articles

Why do we get fat?
Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger
Why Nutrition Is So Confusing
What Makes You Fat: Too Many Calories, or the Wrong Carbohydrates?
Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies
Treat obesity as physiology, not physics
What Really Makes Us Fat

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