There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The “remarkable sodium and water retaining effect of concentrated carbohydrate food,” as the University of Wisconsin endocrinologist Edward Gordon called it, was then explained… — Gary Taubes Copy Share
“Does being “thin” ensure optimal “health”? No. It’s now well accepted that many lean individuals have the condition known as metabolic syndrome, which is… — Gary Taubes Copy Share
There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in… — Gary Taubes Copy Share
