“Carbohydrates are not required in a healthy human diet. Another way to say this (as proponents of carbohydrate restriction have) is that there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Nutritionists will say that 120 to 130 grams of… — 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 only source of that glucose. If the diet includes less than 130 grams of carbohydrates, the liver increases… — 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
