Since the 1960s, nutrition science has been dominated by two conflicting observations. One is that we know how to eat healthy and maintain a healthy weight. The other is that the rapidly increasing rates of obesity and diabetes suggest that something about...
Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity — excessive calories or the wrong carbohydrates. This intriguing article in Scientific American is by well-known scince writer, Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), and Why We...
Is excessive sugar consumption the fundamental reason behind most Western lifestyle diseases? The contention that sugar is a major toxin is not new, but it's finding new light and scientific credibility, and publicity, thanks to the interest around Gary Taubes's new book, Why We Get...
The past few years have seen the launch of many admirable initiatives to solve the problem of childhood obesity in America, but I'd like to respectfully suggest that these programs are, quite simply, doomed to failure. This is not because the food...
Gary Taubes’ fascinating new book, "Why We Get Fat, and What To Do About It" cuts through the scaremongering about an ‘obesity epidemic’ and searches for more rational explanations as to why we’re getting larger, writes Rob Lyons on spiked-online.com. The simplistic...