My favorite nutrition author, Gary Taubes, has an essay in yesterday's New York Times: "What Really Makes Us Fat."

The historical and scientific background is familiar to those of use who have read Taubes's Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet and Disease and Why We Get Fat (And What to Do About It).  The new ( Read more... )

My favorite nutrition journalist and historian, Gary Taubes, has an essay in the New York Times today: "Salt, We Misjudged You."  Taubes lays out how current public policy and conventional wisdom on salt consumption are not only not supported by the latest and greatest science, they were not even supported by the science at the time the policies ( Read more... )

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 FailingIt's inspired by a new HBO documentary pushing the same old advice.  For those of us who are already fans of ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned lately that I adore science journalist and historian Gary Taubes, and that I believe everyone should read him?  Take your pick: his easy, short, 2011 book (Why We Get Fat); his hard, long, 2007 book (Good Calories, Bad Calories); his articles; his blog...

And speaking of his blog, he just posted an incisive, compelling take-down ( Read more... )

Gary Taubes, the science journalist/historian with whose work I've been infatuated lately, has a feature-length article in today's New York Times: "Is Sugar Toxic?"  I find his writing always satisfying and educational, and his subjects important and relevant ( Read more... )

Science journalist/historian Gary Taubes (author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat) has a highly-readable guest column in Slate today: "It's Not About the Calories: Why existing efforts to combat childhood obesity are bound to failHe discusses how positive, well-intentioned programs like "Let's Move!" cannot succeed unless they give ( Read more... )

I set up garytaubes, a Livejournal feed for the blog of Gary Taubes, science journalist and author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat.  (There's a matching feed on Dreamwidth.)

Two books by science journalist/historian Gary Taubes have impressed me enormously. Over the past few months, I’ve read the public library copies of his newer, shorter, easier-to-read, mass-audience Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It twice, and his older, longer, densely-packed, scholarly-audience Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the ( Read more... )