Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes
Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

Author: Gary Taubes

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 25 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2011

Synopsis

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. In this groundbreaking book, awardwinning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

About Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine, and his writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire. His work has been included in The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010), and has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers, the only print journalist so recognized. He is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He lives in Berkeley.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on August 02, 2008

It is fitting that I finished this book while descending for landing over Newark airport in the middle of intense turbulence. It was the airsickness that the turbulent descent caused that I consider fitting. The sickening feeling one is left with after reading this book is similar: it starts slowly,......more

Goodreads review by Dianne on October 16, 2007

This book is like the Copernican Revolution of diet advice: reverse one key assumption, and suddenly all the evidence that didn't fit the previous hypothesis suddenly makes sense. Taubes suggests that we've mixed up cause and effect: we don't get fat because we eat too many calories and don't get en......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on March 02, 2009

Holy RESEARCH, Batman. Wow. It seems like Gary Taubes maybe took a lot of guff after his controversial piece in the New York Times, and decided to just let all his critics have it by burying them in tons and tons of data. I have read about low-carb diets before, but nothing really convincing (to me,......more

Goodreads review by Duffy on July 31, 2011

I've often been asked what's the best way to lose 10 lbs quickly, usually by someone who is getting ready for some major event. A few times, I've answered: "You could cut off one of your legs." For some reason, this answer never goes over that well. And yes, its not as funny as I first thought, but......more

Goodreads review by Lala on February 26, 2008

First the bad - this book is a slog, especially the first third of it. It definitely takes some effort to read. That said, if you're interested in nutrition, or fitness, or biology or, as I am, debunking and exposing bad science, you should read this book. Taubes makes a convincing case for the idea......more

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