![]() ![]() Unsurprisingly, many readers found it to be hard going as it was aimed at a scientifically-oriented audience. That work was nearly five hundred pages of densely-written, heavily annotated scientific prose. This book reviews much of the same ground that his previous work, Good Calories, Bad Calories covered. If he is right - and his work has the ring of scientific truth about it - it means that much of the dietary advice we have been following is flat-out wrong. While his thesis is unquestionably controversial, Taubes builds a strong scientific case that this is indeed what is happening. The central thesis of Taubes’ new book, Why We Get Fat is that carbohydrates in our diet is the cause of this epidemic. ![]() Gary Taubes claims to be one such observer, and he’s convinced that there is definitely something wrong with the science of nutrition as it is being practiced today. ![]() A neutral observer might conclude that there is something wrong with the science here. Despite the fact that we are constantly exhorted to eat less and exercise more, we continue to get fatter. ![]() As we get fatter, the diseases associated with obesity - diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer - continue to rise. There is little doubt that the United States, along with much of the rest of the world, is in the midst of an epidemic of obesity. ![]()
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