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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) |  | Author: Gary Taubes
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Pages: 640
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 1400033462
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.283
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Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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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, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.
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 Good Calories, Bad Calories October 30, 2009
Imelda S. Rabben (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gary Taubes presented a compelling and well- researched book on health and diet. Why it is taking so long for the experts on nutrition and diet to accept it and verify that we must keep our food just like in the very long past, lean, simple, from the earth, shows the force of political and commercial involvement in what should be for the good of all.
Good Calories Bad Calories October 22, 2009
Eve Gabriel
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the best books on nutrition I've read in years.
Succinctly written, yet thorough. A great historical
review of weight management during the past 100 years.
A compelling discussion of metabolic syndrome and a
convincing argument for treating obesity, diabetes and
heart disease as symptoms of one endocrine disorder.
Bravo! to G. Taubes for tackling this giant, and for
his reasoned, unbiased work.
 Best book I've read on modern nutrition debate October 16, 2009
EMM (Long Beach, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overwhelmingly academic at times, this is like a semester long course in the modern nutritional debate, carbs vs. fat vs. protein, etc, etc
Great achievement by Mr. Taubes to have written such an exhaustive book.
Certainly the most definitive title to-date on nutrition.
The only drawback would be that at some points I was overwhelmed with the academic data and detail of his study, but for those inclined it will be great.
The missing chapter October 7, 2009
Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Those who've read this will be unsurprised to learn that a great deal of material was cut out (including, interestingly, comments on the work of Weston A. Price) at the instigation of the publishers, simply because the size of the book was getting prohibitively large.
It's been suggested that Gary reassemble this material and publish it as GCBC, Part 2. In the meantime, Google "Gout: The Missing Chapter".
I'm one of those who think that Gary should get the Nobel Prize for GCBC.
If you only read one book, make it this one. October 6, 2009
Hiker (Bellingham, WA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the most important book I've ever read. I've read it now three times, because it is so densely packed with technical scientific information that I wanted to be sure I understood the concepts before I radically changed my diet. As I read it the first time, I was stunned to realize that Dr. Atkins was right all along. I remembered a co-worker who went on the diet about 10 years ago, and I watched as he melted almost in front of my eyes. He told me he was eating meat, meat, meat, and I told him he was gonna die, die, die! His wife showed up one day when I hadn't seen her for months. She was supermodel thin, and supermodel gorgeous. I was like, "what the f#@*!" I ranted to myself that she had no kids and nothing but time, time, time to workout and eat gourmet lowfat meals...." How stupid was I? While they were doing Atkins I was lugging around that extra 20 pounds for 10 years before I finally got my hands on this book. This book is to diet what the Surgeon General's Report on cigarettes was to smoking. If you read this book (and it's a real commitment to do so) then you cannot avoid radical change. I have not ingested one gram of refined sugar or flour since I finished the first few chapters. I have lost 30 pounds in four months and have gained an amazing amount of energy and vitality. I look and feel younger, and I haven't needed or wanted one dose of my anxiety medication. My moods are better and more stable than they've been in my life. While this book focuses on the causes of obesity, I think it would be interesting to know the effects of refined carbohydrates on moods and mental health. I know from my own experience though, that removing refined carbohydrates from my diet has transformed both my mind and my body. I have also, with more limited success, removed the refined carbs from my family's diet. My 9-year-old son is on fire at school. He never complains of hunger on my breakfasts and lunches (heavy on the protein and fat), and he's at the very top of his class. When I think back on my childhood diet, I can't help but wonder what I might have accomplished if I hadn't been raised on Captain Crunch and Wonder Bread.
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