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Fasting, Diet, Carbohydrates, Cause & Effect
The principle hypothesis, generally accepted, is that obesity is caused by eating more calories than are expended, the excess being stored as fat. Reduce intake, increase output, or both, and fat comes...
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180 Degree Errors
Have you ever stopped to consider that it's often easier to be completely wrong than just a little wrong? Consider this; when you're trying to get somewhere in the car, is it more likely that you miss...
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Big Fat Lies
Another lecture by Taubes. You might also like Lies, Lies, and Damn Lies Vegan Lies and their Stick Figure People All Your Lies Fasting, Diet, Carbohydrates, Cause & Effect 180 Degree Errors
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
After a period of reading another couple of books, I have just picked back up on Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories once again over the last couple of days. You know what? This is an amazing work...
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Smackdown
This is just too good to quote any of it. You'll just have to go read the whole thing, as Peter -- the very smart UK veterinarian -- ridicules the "calories in / calories out" oversimplification....
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Mother Earth News…
Has published an article by Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, and whom I've blogged about several times in the past. Fasting, Diet, Carbohydrates, Cause & Effect 180 Degree Errors...
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Weekend Links & Quick Hits: Gary Taubes, Art De Vany, Denise Minger, The...
~ Gary Taubes finally has a blog. Of course, you would have to have had been asleep under a rock not to already know that by now. His first and as of yet, only post -- The Inanity of Overeating -- has...
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Peter Attia, MD. Emotional TED Presentation. Pip-Squeaks & Clowns
From the TED page. ...Prior to his time at McKinsey, Peter spent five years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a general surgery resident, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards,...
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Science Lessons from Gary Taubes and David Katz On The Obesity Epidemic
Read both published articles. Both have many merits if you maintain The Big Picture and just step off Your High Horse for a few minutes. This is what education is all about. ...But first, as an aside,...
View ArticleBreaking: The NuSI / Taubes Carbohydrate-Insulin Alternative Hypothesis of...
Way back when Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health came out, he proposed an alternative hypothesis for obesity; essentially, that carbs...
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The Case Against Sugar And The Case For Low-Carb Diets by Dr. Michael Eades
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that science journalist Gary Taubes has a new book out: The Case Against Sugar. I have not read the book myself, but have read a number of reviews...
View ArticleCalories In, Calories Out (CICO)—Is it The Whole Story?
Once again, not much time for blogging. Pounded the keyboard until 1am last night, until good and tired. But, then found I was so jacked that the last time I glanced at the clock before drifting off...
View ArticleMore Big Success Dumping HFLC and Embracing Whole Food Starch and Targeting...
Yesterday I got a comment in a post that went like this: I lust for the days where you used to go bat shit crazy (starting paleo Wars etc) but alas, the RS seems to have tamed your wild ways…...
View ArticleRevisiting the Changing Paleo Landscape in Real Food Starches, Resistant...
A few days back I somewhat reluctantly called out Nora Gedgaudas for what, in my judgement, is a resistance to various revelations that have come to pass over the last few years and been widely adopted...
View ArticleA Mild Critique of the Low-Carb-Diet Encouragement to Add Fat
Please understand right off the bat that I am not an enemy of low-carbohydrate dieting as a lifestyle. And even for myself, on average, I’d put it in the moderate carbohydrate category. Even Atkins,...
View ArticleMy Own Ray Peat Hack of Orange Juice and Milk – 2 Days
Thought I’d pop this up for interest. While my main interest right now is the buzzing over the recent NuSI study that appears to falsify Taubes’ alternative hypothesis (the comments are off the charts...
View ArticleWhat If It’s All Been A Big Fat Truth?
Hopefully, Gary Taubes won’t mind my play on his title. In fact, this post isn’t really to address low carb—its pluses or minuses—at all, but rather to further advance the idea that just as Mike Eades...
View ArticleWill The Public NuSI Critique Take Another Turn? (Lavish Executive Compensation)
Well, last week there was this, and it’s created quite a buzz: BREAKING: THE NUSI / TAUBES CARBOHYDRATE-INSULIN ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS OF OBESITY IN SERIOUS TROUBLE Many have weighed in on both sides...
View ArticleHow NuSI Reflects One Fable of Aesop
Mountains will labour: what’s born? A ridiculous mouse! (Ep.II.3, 136–9) Back in about 1995 on USENET in a particular “newsgroup,” one of the other frequent posters was David Friedman (son of Milton)....
View ArticleSugar May Feed Cancer, But Does Protein Build It?
In February, 2009, over seven years ago, I posted: Sugar Feeds Cancer. Reading that post now, I have to wonder if I failed to make a critical distinction between building and feeding. So the classic...
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