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
“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
“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
