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Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories is a great book that examines the science behind low-carb diets and attacks low-fat diets as completely lacking scienti
by karzeem 16y ago
Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories is a great book that examines the science behind low-carb diets and attacks low-fat diets as completely lacking scientific support and being essentially the biggest public health disaster of the 20th century.
- MikeCapone 16y agoI recommend it too. The title makes it sound like light pop-science, but he did a lot more research than I expected, and unlike most people commenting on diet, he went to the primary sources, and even went back a far as 150 years to see where the current mainstream view comes from.
- Tichy 16y agoI think I read most of it, but then suddenly I felt no smarter than before. Yes, he presents a lot of evidence for what he is convinced is the right theory. However, just from reading his book, I can not really verify it. Who is to say that the cases he presents are not hand selected (in fact, he admitted himself that they are), and that the opposition could not be possible to line up a similar study of numbers? It is not a very readable book, it is just hundreds of pages describing various health studies and arguing why some of them are wrong and others were wrongly not taken seriously. It makes me a little bit suspicious that it is such a bad read and such a huge collection of studies, because quelling the opposition with an immense amount of information seems more like a rhetorical approach than a scientific approach. Also, on videos I saw Taube still is overweight. Not eating his own dog food?