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Good Calories, Bad Calories

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

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 This groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer and bestselling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case for Keto shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

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

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. Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Hygiene & Healthy Living Science Health Nutrition Healthy Diet Heartfelt Keto Diet Low Carb Medicine Dementia Mental Health Fats Carbs
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Great review of the research on the subject of weight loss and gain from the last hundred years or so and how it seems to have fallen apart completely.

Great unbiased review of the literature

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Anyone interested in health and or nutrition this is a must read. This author asks questions and looks exhaustingly for answers instead of making assumptions and jumping to conclusions. Has actual science been hijacked by egos and "the old boys club"? In true Gary Taubes fashion he reports the whole story, not just what people want to hear.

Looking forward to reading the next Gary Taubes

a MUST read

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This book shows all the nutrition science in the last century. It also shows all the knowledge that has been missed or misconstrued. It has opened my mind to a different way of thinking about food and how it hurts and helps us.

Amazingly enlightening!

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If you are looking for a very in depth book on health, diet, and nutritional research. This is the book for you!

Great book!

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Gary Taubes has analyzed and synthesized a massive number of studies, articles, books and other information sources to create this very detailed, insightful and lifesaving book.
It is sad that the theories and unproven hypothesis from 50-100 years ago continue to form the dietary and health advice of major cardiac and diabetes organizations I have looked to in the past for sound, evidence-based advice.
I am shocked and deeply disappointed that so much of what they STILL recommend to us is unproven, as Taubes so clearly describes.
We deserve better from our researchers and physicians... so many of us suffer and die because our ‘experts’ refuse to challenge dated and baseless assumptions, have the courage to admit they ‘got it wrong’ and tell us what Taubes so clearly states:
The diseases of modern society (diabetes, heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s etc…) have the same root cause - our incessant over-consumption of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, white flour, and other highly processed carbohydrates.
Thank you for this lifesaving book Gary!!

Lifesaving…

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