Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

Gary Taubes

Anchor Books, 2008 - Health & Fitness - 609 pages

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.

What people are saying

User Review -

The good reviews for this books are fake, and made to just promote the book. This books is long and boring, and filled with irrelevant information. This book was poorly written with no creativity or innovation. Waste of time to read. I don't know why Gary Taubes even thought this would be a good idea. I'm just glad I got the free pdf online and didn't have to pay a dime for this garbage. 0 STARS!! 

User Review -

This is one of only a handful of books that (will change your life) that you need to to know about food and health. This is not a diet book!!! I think most people who dont like this book, picked it up for the wrong reason. (no quick fix to YOUR problem) Need to diet? Change your understanding of food first by really reading this book, then you can change your bad habits based upon that! Its a tome, so be prepared for a big read. But worth the time. 

Contents

• I: vii
• III: xxiv
• IV: xxv
• V: 18
• VI: 38
• VII: 56
• VIII: 82
• X: 83
• XI: 94
• XII: 116
• XIII: 130
• XIV: 147
• XV: 172
• XVI: 180
• XVII: 189
• XVIII: 198
• XIX: 220
• XX: 221
• XXI: 244
• XXII: 262
• XXIII: 284
• XXIV: 297
• XXV: 305
• XXVI: 319
• XXVII: 347
• XXVIII: 368
• XXIX: 396
• XXX: 417
• XXXI: 440

About the author

Gary Taubes is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine and a contributing editor at Technology Review. He has written about science, medicine, and health for Science, Discover, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Fortune, Forbes, and GQ. His articles have appeared in The Best American Science Writing three times. He has won three Science-in-Society Journalism Awards given by the National Association of Science Writers--the only print journalist so recognized--as well as awards from the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. His book Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He was educated at
Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health; Vintage Series
• Author: Gary Taubes
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Anchor Books, 2008
• ISBN: 1400033462, 9781400033461
• Length: 609 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets; Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition; Medical / Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Science / General