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Good Calories, Bad Calories

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Random House Digital, Inc., Sep 25, 2007 - Health & Fitness - 601 pages
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.


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User Review  - Jeff Van Campen - Goodreads

I read Good Calories, Bad Calories over several months. This book is incredibly well researched (Gary Taubes says he's spent over fifteen years researching the book), and very well written. It ... Read full review

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User Review  - Larry Brennan - Goodreads

Taubes outlines the public health policy decisions and the flawed studies that have been advocating a high-carb diet since the 1970's. He also provides an overview of other studies, empirical evidence ... Read full review

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Contents

The Eisenhower Paradox
3
The lnadequacy of Lesser Evidence
42
The Greater Good
60
THE CARBOHYDRATE HYPOTHESIS
86
Diabetes and the Carbohydrate Hypothesis
105
Fiber
122
The Science of the Carbohydrate Hypothesis
137
Triglycerides and the Complications
153
Conservation of Energy
292
I8 Fattening Diets 35
305
Reducing Diets
313
Unconventional Diets
327
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis
355
Insulin
376
as The Fattening Carbohydrate Disappears
404
4 The Carbohydrate Hypothesis
420

The Role of Insulin
178
The Significance of Diabetes
195
Dementia Cancer and Aging
204
OBESITY AND THE REGULATION OF WEIGHT
226
Hunger
252
Paradoxes
270
ix
461
60
468
178
564
186
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252
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About the author (2007)

Gary Taubes is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and a contributing editor at Technology Review. He has written about science, medicine, and health for Science, Discover, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Fortune, Forbes, and GQ. His articles have appeared in The Best American Science Writing three times. He has won three Science-in-Society Journalism Awards given by the National Association of Science Writers--the only print journalist so recognized--as well as awards from the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. His book Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He was educated at
Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia.


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