“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
“How can seemingly unprocessed foods like fruit be sub-optimal for our health? While our Paleolithic ancestors may have eaten copious fruit, it… — 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
“[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
“It is true that dental caries was not a major health and economic hazard until refined sugar was made available,” wrote the… — 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
“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
“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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