Good Calories, Bad Calories
By
Taubes, Gary
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| Price: | $16.95 |
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| Categories: | Health |
| ISBN: | 9780307267948 |
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc., Knopf Publishing Group |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Gary Taubes is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and a contributing editor at Technology Review. He has written about science, medicine, and health for Science, Discover, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Fortune, Forbes, and GQ. His articles have appeared in The Best American Science Writing three times. He has won three Science-in-Society Journalism Awards given by the National Association of Science Writers--the only print journalist so recognized--as well as awards from the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. His book Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He was educated at Continue reading...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Brian (Littleton, CO)
Fri Apr 17 2009 19:28
In a nutshell: Everything you think about food and nutrition is wrong.
Gary Taubes makes a compelling case for a low-carbohydrate diet over the conventional low-fat recommendations. He goes through what feels like every major study of the past 100 years and points out the flaws in them...more...
Tim (Seattle, WA)
Fri Jan 09 2009 14:06
Short review: A fascinating and detailed look at the controversies related to weight loss and nutrition science. This is not a diet book, but a science book.
Long review:
The book expands greatly on this NYTimes Magazine article, What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?, which Taubes wro...more...
Valerie (Santa Maria, CA)
Wed May 13 2009 20:32
Super-smart, annoyed, contrarian, intense Jewish guys are HOT!!! Gary Taubes rocks the house with an awesome book about food, nutrition, and (most importantly) the politics of food journalism that will turn your preconceived notions upside down and force you to stop and think for yourself...more...
Diane (Adrian, MI)
Fri Jun 27 2008 05:06
Lots of science, lots of suggestion that the hypotheses have driven the interpretation of the evidence, rather than the evidence supporting or refuting the hypotheses.
I don't know what to think about the overall book yet--I still have some pages to wade through. It almost feels like bei...more...
Katherine (Santa Cruz, CA)
Tue Dec 16 2008 15:27
This book provides an interesting perspective on the "science" of nutrition. While I think that Gary Taubes convincingly argues that low-fat is not necessarily good (specifically if low-fat means high refined carbohydrates) and provides a thought provoking description of the tensions that...more...
Susan (Lawrence, KS)
Sun Dec 14 2008 14:59
I should say upfront that I cherry-picked more than "read" this entire book. It's a pretty technical, long, science book. The author, a science writer, tells how nutritionists coined the phrase "a calorie is a calorie". He then goes on to destroy the myth it implies. A calori...more...
Pete (Spokane, WA)
Sat Nov 07 2009 17:32
This is the ONLY book I've ever read on nutrition (and I've read probably 50 or so) that traces the history of how we got to believing the absolute nonesense that we do about eating. Namely that carbohydrates are good for us and fats are bad.
The author carefully researches the history ...more...
bryan (Tustin, CA)
Thu Apr 03 2008 12:33
Lots of good and fascinating information, but not high on the readability index. Taubes is trying to overturn common wisdom so he builds his case very methodically, with lots of detail. Feel free to skim.
That said, if Taubes is correct, the public has been misled/lied to (depending on h...more...
Jason (The United States)
Tue Mar 25 2008 13:25
This book is a tough read but well worth it if you want to know what is happening in your body when you eat. A calorie is not a calorie. All weight gain and loss is hormonally driven. If you are pressed for time and don't want to know all the details I would highly recommend the prologue and the epi...more...
Jim (Cambridge, MA)
Sun Jan 25 2009 20:01
This is probably one of the most important books to read regarding what we eat. It presents some incredibly compelling and convincing evidence for why the "conventional wisdom" on diet is flat out wrong. The impact of following this "common sense" advice has been quite tragic and...more...
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