gary taubes
@garytaubes
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Author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case for Keto, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Bad Science, and Nobel Dreams
Oakland, California
Joined June 2009
Why challenge the dogma about why we get fat? . Because the idea that we get fat because we overeat -- consciously or unconsciously- explains little to nothing. How about a century-old perspective instead?. Nutrition & Health News This Week
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What a famous NBA basketball player, his imaginary fraternal twin, and two English bulldogs from a century ago tell us about the illogic of the idea that we get fat because we eat too much. Of Course Overeating Makes Us Fat. Except When It Doesn't?
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I'm confused. When @KevinH_PhD starts sounding like me publicly--suggesting the primary problem with the American diet is the sugar content--I have to consider the possibility that finally we're both right.
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RT @StewartKnoepp: @garytaubes @GordySlack @Metabolic_Mind Excellent article, thanks. Just read both of these books. Georgia Ede's book is….
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RT @janellison: If I'd read an article like this when our son had his first manic episode back in 2016, I would have immediately offered to….
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See the note from Kevin Fontaine at UAB. There's little I can add, other than my request that we all contribute. Join me and make a gift to Dr. Sarah Hallberg Endowed Scholarship for Diabetes Research and Prevention
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This is a terrific article by @GordySlack on using ketogenic diets for mental illness. @Metabolic_Mind .
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How did American explorers get by in the early 19th Century? They lived, unsurprisingly, on mostly meat. Here's General William Ashley on the experience of his explorations in the 1820s: "the circumstance of the uninterrupted health of these people who generally eat
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RT @Metabolic_Mind: Are low carb and ketogenic diets being misrepresented by flawed nutrition studies?. In this video, @bschermd breaks dow….
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Thought experiment: assume for the moment that ultra-processed food is a scientific-sounding rebranding of the concept of junk food. Now imagine that the nutrition research community is dedicating its research to determine why people eat so much junk food, as though it was all
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RT @Metabolic_Mind: Is nutrition research getting the support it needs to inform public health policy?. Despite the rise in chronic disease….
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RT @Square1Wellness: Super video with @garytaubes and @ifixhearts I don't know about you but I prefer the "diet by health" and not the "d….
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RT @AKoutnik: I live with an IRREVERSIBLE metabolic disease. I was invited to Washington D.C., to share my 17-year journey with chronic dis….
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Nicely summarized and worth a read.
@fmfclips 🧵1/. Excuse me, what gives?.We’re eating less red meat per capita than decades ago. 🍗 Poultry replaced beef.🌽 Seed oils replaced butter/lard.🥗 Ultra-processed plants dominate.So why are colorectal cancer rates rising in young adults?.📉🥩📈🧠.🔗 2/
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RT @davidludwigmd: “Pathological” science?. To solve the chronic disease epidemics, we need to get the research right. @garytaubes on the….
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Signs that the paradigm is shifting (i.e, we've made progress): . The 90-y-o's working out at the Y are breakfasting on sausage and eggs in a spinach wrap. The longevity influencer is urging his clients to cut back on sugar.
My essay today in @wsj is part of our ongoing look at the pursuit of longevity. We also held a Live Q and A with @EricTopol about living longer/healthier. That conversation is still available to read here:
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NIH Nutrition Research Takes it on the Chin . Last month, @KevinH_PhD, the "top" nutrition researcher at NIH, took early retirement, citing censored by the MAHA folks. A week later, the BMJ and STAT publish articles by @davidludwigmd and collaborators asserting that the NIH
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Nice to see that the KD demonstrate efficacy in kids (not that I particularly doubted it) but it would have been nice to see a control group and randomization. Maybe any weight loss diet would achieve the same effect?.
#Keto4Kids shows great results from Faculty of Medicine in Bulgaria. The 58/100 patients who completed the study with follow-up assessments ranged in age from 8 to 18 years (mean 13.79 ± 0.34) at the start of the diet, including 35 (60.34%) boys and 23 (39.66%) girls. They
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Conventional thinking on GLP-1 drugs is that they target the brain to inhibit appetite. We eat less and so we lose weight. But do they?. A new study in Cell Metabolism suggests something far more profound.
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RT @LDLSkeptic: What if all doctors were made aware of the small absolute risk benefit of statins. What if all ads were required to display….
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Some large proportion of folks who use GLP-1 drugs for weight loss are going to stop, either from choice or necessity. What do we know about post-GLP-1 diet therapy? . I.e., what to eat to maintain weight loss?. Diet or Drugs 3? First Wegovy, Then What?
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