Anyone Reading Good Calories Bad Calories?

[Druluv75]

I'm up to the third chapter, I can't believe what I'm reading. Our current nutritional standards are based on weak science. I don't know how the public will react to this information.

[phabphour20]

Well, you know I am reading it.

It is amazing. I don't know what people will think. They'll probably brush it aside because it isn't what the medical establishment tells us.

I think I will actually pick it up right now... about 3/4 the way through...

-PP

[PyroBurns]

I tried to pick it up but the bookstore LOST their copies somehow. :(

So does he backup his claims with proof? Good proof? How?

[phabphour20]

I tried to pick it up but the bookstore LOST their copies somehow. :(

So does he backup his claims with proof? Good proof? How?

MASSIVE amounts of proof. There is basically 100 pages of bibliography and references.

He starts off refuting the diet-heart hypothesis first put forward by Ancel Keys and then promulgated by the US government (McGovern et al). He shows that the science on which these arguments were founded was in no way conclusive. Basically some key people decided that the evidence in support of lowering dietary fat and cholesterol seemed "good enough" to start a massive scale push towards changing the American diet. It was basically (and still is) a massive scale dietary experiment conducted on the whole population that obviously is not working.

After refuting the current "consensus," Taubes launches into a systematic analysis of the scientific evidence involved in the dietary composition debate. It is pretty compelling stuff.

Basically carbs spike insulin, excess insulin causes the storage of excess fat. Restoring the natural metabolic state by eliminating carbs reverses this process and will naturally over time reduce excess bodyfat and reach homeostasis.

Pick up the book. It is dense and full of references, but very well written.

-PP