The Diet Delusion
by Gary Taubes · first published 2008
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A brilliant debunking of the popular misconceptions on health and diet that also takes a hard look at the corporate world of the diet industry.Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Nutrition and obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic, that diabetes rates have soared and the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet and health aware tod
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…"public health experts", who by all appearances are little more than irrational single-interest zealots intent on pushing through their pet theory regardless of evidence, should seek out and read The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes. It is an (IMO) authoritative excoriation of the kinds of processes and personalities behind these "recommendations" and will really open your eyes.
on “John Tierney: Salt Good or Bad? Nobody Knows (Yet)” ↗I have heard this argument a lot, and I've also heard there is data to refute it. I haven't looked up the references, but this is covered in several nutrition books I have read, including: The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes, In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, and The Perfect Health Diet by Paul Jaminet. The observation is always the same: Cancer is one of the "western diseases" that starts appearing in…
on “Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?” ↗No, but if you ask this question on Hacker News you will get a muddled and slightly paranoid sounding synopsis of Gary Taubes' book on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diet_Delusion Probably best to go straight to the source. I'm hoping it's a bit more naunced than the "biology is hard, nutrition is complex, therefore theories proposed by science journalists from outwith the field…
on “Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel” ↗