
Geboren: April 30, 1956 – Rochester, New York, United States
Gary Taubes is an American science journalist and author who focuses on nutrition, obesity, and the evidence behind conventional dietary advice. He is best known for Good Calories, Bad Calories, Why We Get Fat, and The Case Against Sugar. His work has significantly shaped debate over low-carbohydrate diets and sugar’s role in chronic disease.
Gary Taubes built his career at the intersection of science, skepticism, and narrative. Educated first in the sciences and then in journalism, he earned an S.B. in applied physics from Harvard in 1977, an M.S. in engineering from Stanford in 1978, and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia in 1981. His earliest books, Nobel Dreams and Bad Science, were not about diet at all; they examined the culture of scientific discovery and error. In the early part of his career he wrote across disciplines for Discover, Science, and The New York Times Magazine, before shifting in the mid-1990s toward public health, nutrition, and obesity. A major turning point came with his 2001 Science article “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat” and his 2002 New York Times Magazine piece “What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?,” which made him a prominent public voice in the modern diet debate. ((https://garytaubes.com/biography/))

Gary Taubes
A paradigm-shifting examination of obesity, challenging conventional wisdom and offering a new perspective on diet and health.

Gary Taubes
A compelling exposé on sugar's harmful effects, exploring its history and impact on modern health epidemics like obesity and diabetes.

Gary Taubes
A paradigm-shifting examination of obesity, challenging conventional wisdom and offering a new perspective on diet and health.

Gary Taubes
A compelling exposé on sugar's harmful effects, exploring its history and impact on modern health epidemics like obesity and diabetes.
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— The New York Times
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— Family Medicine
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— Gretchen Rubin
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— The Washington Post
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— Mark Bittman
"Gary Taubes deserves a national science medal for helping to raise the critical question of why the food we eat is killing us"
— Kevin Schulman
"Gary Taubes's meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition"
— The Guardian
"In making the case against sugar, Gary Taubes details the often insidious efforts by the sugar industry to hide how harmful it is"
— Katie Couric
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