Good Calories, Bad Calories

Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

By: Gary Taubes

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Paperback | 23 September 2008

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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.

Called “a very important book,” by Andrew Weil and …” destined to change the way we think about food,” by Michael Pollan, this groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

Good Calories, Bad Calories was also published as The Diet Delusion (ISBN: 9780091924287) in the UK.

About the Author

Gary Taubes is the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories. He is a former staff writer for Discover and a correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous “Best of” anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and a co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). He lives in Oakland, California.

Industry Reviews

"Gary Taubes is a brave and bold science journalist who does not accept conventional wisdom."
The New York Times

"A very important book. Dr. Andrew Weil Brilliant and enlightening. . . . Taubes is a relentless researcher."
The Washington Post

"A watershed. . . . Lucid and lively. . . . It could literally change the way you eat, the way you look and how long you live."
Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Fitness & Diet Diets & Dieting, Nutrition Religion & Beliefs Science Science in General Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Environmental Medicine Occupational Medicine

Prologue: A Brief History of Banting	p. ix
The Fat-Cholesterol Hypothesis
The Eisenhower Paradox	p. 3
The Inadequacy of Lesser Evidence	p. 22
Creation of Consensus	p. 42
The Greater Good	p. 60
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis
Diseases of Civilization	p. 89
Diabetes and the Carbohydrate Hypothesis	p. 100
Fiber	p. 122
The Science of the Carbohydrate Hypothesis	p. 136
Triglycerides and the Complications of Cholesterol	p. 153
The Role of Insulin	p. 178
The Significance of Diabetes	p. 186
Sugar	p. 195
Dementia, Cancer, and Aging	p. 204
Obesity and the Regulation of Weight
The Mythology of Obesity	p. 229
Hunger	p. 252
Paradoxes	p. 270
Conservation of Energy	p. 292
Fattening Diets	p. 305
Reducing Diets	p. 313
Unconventional Diets	p. 327
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, I: Fat Metabolism	p. 355
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, II: Insulin	p. 376
The Fattening Carbohydrate Disappears	p. 404
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, III: Hunger and Satiety	p. 425
Epilogue	p. 449
Afterword to the Anchor Edition	p. 461
Notes	p. 469
Bibliography	p. 515
Acknowledgments	p. 583
Index	p. 585
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