Taubes, Gary
Summary: "For years health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. It's simple enough. So why doesn't it work for millions of overweight or obese Americans? Gary Taubes sets the record straight--clarifying a century of misunderstanding about the differences between diet, weight control, and health--and gives us a revolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Not another diet book: After seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, science writer Taubes shows that almost everything we believe about a healthy diet is wrong. We are taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more--yet we see unprecedented epidemics of obesity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2007
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Summary: Reveals the role of certain carbohydrates in today's obesity epidemic while denouncing calorie-based nutritional practices, and discusses genetics, the politics behind nutritional guidelines, and foods to eat and avoid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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Summary: This work is an examination of what makes us fat. In his book Good Calories, Bad Calories, the author, an acclaimed science writer argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates, not fats and not simply excess calories, have led to our current obesity epidemic. Now he brings that message to a wider, nonscientific audience. With fresh evidence for his claim, this book makes his critical argument...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.7 TAUTaubes, Gary.
Summary: Reveals the role of certain carbohydrates in today's obesity epidemic while denouncing calorie-based nutritional practices, in a report that includes coverage of such topics as genetics, the politics behind nutritional guidelines, and foods to eat and avoid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2011