“Annual per capita sugar consumption in the depth of the Great Depression was sixteen pounds higher than it had been in 1920.” — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat. — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Obesity researchers now use a quasi-scientific term to describe exactly this condition: they refer to the “obesigenic” environment in which we now… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Referring to obesity as a “form of malnutrition” comes with no moral judgments attached, no belief system, no veiled insinuations of gluttony… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is something that’s been known (and mostly ignored) for over forty years. The one thing we absolutely have to… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“given sufficient time, high-fructose diets can induce high insulin levels, high blood sugar, and insulin resistance, even though in the short term… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The point to keep in mind is that you don’t lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Even though fructose has no immediate effect on blood sugar and insulin, over time -maybe a few years-it is a likely cause… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Glucose goes directly into the bloodstream and is taken up by tissues and organs to use as energy; only 30–40 percent passes… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year,” as… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The most important and most easily measured would be waist circumference. But other factors include small, dense LDL (or a high apoB… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“What do I do to remain lean or lose the excess fat I have?” then this is it: stay away from carbohydrate-rich… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The vitamin-C molecule is similar in configuration to glucose and other sugars in the body. It is shuttled from the bloodstream into… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In Type 1 diabetes, the cause is a lack of insulin. The result is an inability to use glucose for fuel and… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In particular, raising blood sugar will increase the production of what are known technically as reactive oxygen species and advanced glycation end-products,… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“A single molecule plays the pivotal role in the system. It goes by a number of names, the simplest being glycerol phosphate.… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In the bloodstream, virtually all insulin-like growth factors are attached to small proteins that ferry them around to various tissues where they… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In other words, the science itself makes clear that hormones, enzymes, and growth factors regulate our fat tissue, just as they do… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The “remarkable sodium and water retaining effect of concentrated carbohydrate food,” as the University of Wisconsin endocrinologist Edward Gordon called it, was… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Carbohydrates are not required in a healthy human diet. Another way to say this (as proponents of carbohydrate restriction have) is that… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“It also makes us question the admonitions that carbohydrate restriction cannot “generally be used safely,” as Theodore Van Itallie wrote in 1979,… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“…Sugar has become an ingredient avoidable in prepared and packaged foods only by concerted and determined effort, effectively ubiquitous. Not just in… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“By the 1920s, sugar refineries were producing as much sugar in a single day—millions of pounds—as would have taken refineries in the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Our brains, for instance, are 70 percent fat, mostly in the form of a substance known as myelin that insulates nerve cells… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Wolever and Jenkins tested sixty-two foods and recorded the blood-sugar response in the two hours after consumption. Different individuals responded differently, and… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Though glucose is a primary fuel for the brain, it is not, however, the only fuel, and dietary carbohydrates are not the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“1983, Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University framed this enigma in the form of two alternative hypotheses. One was the common belief “that… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“By 1952, the University of Minnesota nutritionist Ancel Keys was arguing that high blood levels of cholesterol caused heart disease, and that… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Does being “thin” ensure optimal “health”? No. It’s now well accepted that many lean individuals have the condition known as metabolic syndrome,… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Of those that appeared to play obvious roles in heart disease, three in particular stood out even in the early 1950s. Two… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is something that’s been known (and mostly ignored) for over forty years. The one thing we absolutely have to do if… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The most important and most easily measured would be waist circumference. But other factors include small, dense LDL (or a high apoB or LDL… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“By 1952, the University of Minnesota nutritionist Ancel Keys was arguing that high blood levels of cholesterol caused heart disease, and that it was… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In particular, raising blood sugar will increase the production of what are known technically as reactive oxygen species and advanced glycation end-products, both of… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In Type 1 diabetes, the cause is a lack of insulin. The result is an inability to use glucose for fuel and to retain… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The point to keep in mind is that you don’t lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat. — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Those who ran the most tended to weigh the least, but all these runners tended to get fatter with each passing year, even those… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
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