Thread: Gary Taubes' new book!

It's coming out next month and looks to be an exciting read. Here's the review from Amazon:

from Amazon

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Book Description~

In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches)—via their dramatic effect on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulation—and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.

Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then —wrongly—were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be.

With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all.

Good Calories, Bad Calories is a tour de force of scientific investigation—certain to redefine the ongoing debate about the foods we eat and their effects on our health.

And here's a link to a review from Dr. Michael Eades.

I can't wait to read it!

Thanks, Mada!

Looks like it will be a good book. I've pre-ordered it from amazon.

You're welcome!

If you do plan to order, don't forget to order it through the LCE Amazon link! (not so subtle little plug for LCE )

Yup, I think it's going to be a winner

Thanks for the plug, Mada! Here's where you can buy the book on Amazon and help support LCE out at the same time...

I've preordered it as well. Thanks for putting up the quick and easy link above.
This looks like it will be fascanating, thanks for putting it out there Mada!

Just got a notice that my book has shipped! Guess you all know what I'll be reading in about a week.

Mada,
Got the same notice. Can't wait for it to arrive!

I got my book yesterday, it's huge, and lots and lots of small print. I'm going to have to keep my bifocals on to read this one, and it's going to take me awhile to get through it, but from the snippets I've read, it's going to be good.

evidently amazon doesn't ship in the order of date the item was ordered. I preordered on July 31 and only got my notice of shipment this morning. can't wait though I will have to wait until at least monday.

mine came. it is absolutely fascinating! it is amazing to me what myths we believe to be true because they are promoted by our own doctors!

Mine came this week, but due to an extra heavy work schedule, I haven't had a chance to start it yet.

Thanks for the heads up about the print, Nita. I will locate my dimestore specials and plant them next to the book.

I'm picking up a copy from the library today--I put it on hold before the library even received it. I'll buy my own copy eventually, but at least I can do some previewing. Happy reading, everyone! (yup, got those bifocals ready to roll)

Got mine the other day, but haven't had a chance to crack it open - such a busy week! Thanks for the heads up about the print! I'll be sure to read when I'm fully rested.

Small print and 650 pages of it? I'm in trouble since i can't locate my reading glasses.Only use them for small print. I'm so looking forward to strating his book that I actually had a dream of the doorbell ringing and being given the book. then when i started reading i woke up. LOL I rarely remember dreams.