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His writing and lectures are based on years of research, and he educates audiences about why it is not just how much we eat, but what we eat that affects our health. What regulates fat tissue is insulin, and the carbohydrates we eat in our diet. Good calories, bad calories by gary taubes wiley online. Challenging the conventional wisdom on diet, weight control, and disease by taubes, gary and a great selection of related books. In other words, calories from protein and fat are good and calories from carb are bad. Good calories, bad calories by gary taubes the weston a.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourselfand you are the easiest person to fool. Like of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have been hardpressed to. Complete notes to good calories, bad calories by gary taubes these notes are ideal as a quick reference for those who have already read the book. Gary taubes good calories bad calories pdf download scribd. Obesity is caused, he argues, not by the quantity of calories you eat but by the quality. Gary taubes s tenets related to obesity can be summarized in four statements i he believes that you can gain weight and become obese without a positive energy balance. Sep 01, 2012 science writer gary taubes has spent the last decade finding a better answer. Oct 07, 2007 gary taubes is a brave and bold science journalist who does not accept conventional wisdom. Gary taubes is a brave and bold science journalist who does not accept conventional wisdom.
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