Taubes Essay in Newsweek
much_madness just let me know that science journalist and historian Gary Taubes has an engaging new essay in Newsweek magazine this week, which we can read online at The Daily Beast: "Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing."
It's inspired by a new HBO documentary pushing the same old advice. For those of us who are already fans of Taubes's work - including Why We Get Fat (And What to Do About It) and Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet and Disease - the essay presents no new facts, but just another very pleasant session with Taubes's well-supported, well-crafted contention that not all calories are equal, and that sugars and grains are uniquely deleterious to human health.
Speaking strictly anecdotally, I've personally lost over fifty pounds since discovering Taubes. Grains are for the birds... literally.
It's inspired by a new HBO documentary pushing the same old advice. For those of us who are already fans of Taubes's work - including Why We Get Fat (And What to Do About It) and Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet and Disease - the essay presents no new facts, but just another very pleasant session with Taubes's well-supported, well-crafted contention that not all calories are equal, and that sugars and grains are uniquely deleterious to human health.
Speaking strictly anecdotally, I've personally lost over fifty pounds since discovering Taubes. Grains are for the birds... literally.