Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and HealthThis groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer and bestselling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case for Keto 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 despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. Called “a very important book,” by Andrew Weil and ”destined to change the way we think about food,” by Michael Pollan, this groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. |
Contents
Part One THE FATCHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS | 1 |
The Eisenhower Paradox | 3 |
The Inadequacy of Lesser Evidence | 22 |
Creation of Consensus | 42 |
The Greater Good | 60 |
Part Two THE CARBOHYDRATE HYPOTHESIS | 87 |
Diseases of Civilization | 89 |
Diabetes and the Carbohydrate Hypothesis | 100 |
Unconventional Diets | 327 |
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis | 361 |
Fat Metabolism | 365 |
Insulin | 376 |
The Fattening Carbohydrate Disappears | 404 |
Hunger and Satiety | 425 |
Epilogue | 449 |
Afterword to the Anchor Edition | 461 |
Fiber | 122 |
The Science of the Carbohydrate Hypothesis | 136 |
Triglycerides and the Complications of Cholesterol | 153 |
The Role of Insulin | 178 |
The Significance of Diabetes | 186 |
Sugar | 195 |
Dementia Cancer and Aging | 204 |
Part Three OBESITY AND THE REGULATION OF WEIGHT | 227 |
The Mythology of Obesity | 229 |
Hunger | 252 |
Paradoxes | 270 |
Conservation of Energy | 292 |
Fattening Diets | 305 |
Reducing Diets | 313 |
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