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'''Gary Taubes''' is a science writer. |
'''Gary Taubes''' is a science writer. |
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Taubes is known for his 2002 [[New York Times]] Magazine article ''What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?'' which questioned the efficacy and health benefits of [[low-fat diet]]s and was seen as defending the [[Atkins diet]] against the medical establishment.<ref name="knight">''[http://web.mit.edu/knight-science/fellows/interviews/taubes.html Inside the Story - Gary Taubes: What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?]'' (Interview with Martha Henry from the MIT Knight Fellowships program, July 2003)</ref> |
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In 2007, he published his book ''Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease'', ISBN 978-1400040780, which aims at examining how a hypothesis got to become dogma and claims to show how the [[scientific method]] was circumvented so one man’s hypothesis could be claimed as correct. The book uses data and studies compiled from dietary research from as early as the 1800's. Taubes includes information and studies which indicate that [[physical exercise]] increases appetite to a degree that makes it an inefficient tool in weight loss. He tracks the origins of commonly accepted dietary advice and aims to show that information that is filtered to the public often contradicts scientific evidence. On October 19, 2007, Taubes appeared on [[Larry King Live]] to discuss his book. Although Taubes has no formal training in nutrition or medicine, his book was praised as "raising interesting and valuable points" by Dr. [[Andrew Weil]] and Dr. [[Mehmet Oz]] who both appeared on the same program. |
In 2007, he published his book ''Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease'', ISBN 978-1400040780, which aims at examining how a hypothesis got to become dogma and claims to show how the [[scientific method]] was circumvented so one man’s hypothesis could be claimed as correct. The book uses data and studies compiled from dietary research from as early as the 1800's. Taubes includes information and studies which indicate that [[physical exercise]] increases appetite to a degree that makes it an inefficient tool in weight loss. He tracks the origins of commonly accepted dietary advice and aims to show that information that is filtered to the public often contradicts scientific evidence. On October 19, 2007, Taubes appeared on [[Larry King Live]] to discuss his book. Although Taubes has no formal training in nutrition or medicine, his book was praised as "raising interesting and valuable points" by Dr. [[Andrew Weil]] and Dr. [[Mehmet Oz]] who both appeared on the same program. |
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Gary Taubes is a science writer.
Taubes is known for his 2002 New York Times Magazine article What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? which questioned the efficacy and health benefits of low-fat diets and was seen as defending the Atkins diet against the medical establishment.[1]
In 2007, he published his book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, ISBN 978-1400040780, which aims at examining how a hypothesis got to become dogma and claims to show how the scientific method was circumvented so one man’s hypothesis could be claimed as correct. The book uses data and studies compiled from dietary research from as early as the 1800's. Taubes includes information and studies which indicate that physical exercise increases appetite to a degree that makes it an inefficient tool in weight loss. He tracks the origins of commonly accepted dietary advice and aims to show that information that is filtered to the public often contradicts scientific evidence. On October 19, 2007, Taubes appeared on Larry King Live to discuss his book. Although Taubes has no formal training in nutrition or medicine, his book was praised as "raising interesting and valuable points" by Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Mehmet Oz who both appeared on the same program.
Taubes used to be a contributing correspondent to Science.[1] He has won the Science In Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times and was awarded a MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 1996-97. [1]
References
- ^ a b c Inside the Story - Gary Taubes: What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? (Interview with Martha Henry from the MIT Knight Fellowships program, July 2003)
Publications
- Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment. Random House 1987 (about Carlo Rubbia)
- Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion. Random House 1993 (about Cold fusion)
- What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2002
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease. 2007, ISBN 978-1400040780
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