Good Calories, Bad Calories
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...
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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. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400033461 (1400033462)
ASIN: 1400033462
Publish date: September 23rd 2008
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 609
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Science,
Health,
Medical,
Medicine,
Sports,
Cooking,
Nutrition,
Fitness,
Diets
An interesting read that asks interesting questions about nutrition and diet and how come people who follow many of these diets don't seem to lose weight. This book points the finger at refined carbohydrates. Now I have issues with a one size fits all model of diet. I don't think that's how it wo...
An interesting read that asks interesting questions about nutrition and diet and how come people who follow many of these diets don't seem to lose weight. This book points the finger at refined carbohydrates.Now I have issues with a one size fits all model of diet. I don't think that's how it work...
Published as Good Calories Bad Calories in the USA.Read the blurb box here on Goodreads; that, right there, is all you need to encounter to get the gist of this overly L-O-N-G book. Note well how I didn't mention soapbox or diatribe.
This book changed my life. An indictment of the diet/health industry for trusting common sense over science.
This is probably one of the most important books to read regarding what we eat. It presents some incredibly compelling and convincing evidence for why the "conventional wisdom" on diet is flat out wrong. The impact of following this "common sense" advice has been quite tragic and goes far beyond obe...
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