Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

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.

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	9781400033461
ISBN 10	1400033462
Title	Good Calories, Bad Calories
Author	Gary Taubes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Three Rivers Press
Year published	2008-09-23
Number of pages	640
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