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The Case for Keto by Gary Taubes

After a century of misunderstanding the differences between diet, weight control, and health, The Case for Keto revolutionizes how we think about healthy eating--from the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar.

Based on twenty years of investigative reporting and interviews with 100 practicing physicians who embrace the keto lifestyle as the best prescription for their patients' health, Gary Taubes gives us a manifesto for the twenty-first-century fight against obesity and diabetes.

For years, health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. So why doesn't it work for everyone? Taubes, whose seminal book Good Calories, Bad Calories and cover stories for The New York Times Magazine changed the way we look at nutrition and health, sets the record straight.

The Case for Keto puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we've come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice.

Taubes reveals why the established rules about eating healthy might be the wrong approach to weight loss for millions of people, and how low-carbohydrate, high-fat/ketogenic diets can help so many of us achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life.

Gary Taubes writes for Science magazine as a contributing correspondent, and his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire. He was the only print journalist to get three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers, and his work was included in The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). At the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, he is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research. He is a Berkeley resident.

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ISBN 13 9780525520061
ISBN 10 0525520066
Title The Case for Keto
Author Gary Taubes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Year published 2020-12-29
Number of pages 304
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