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Gary Taubes

Nacido: 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.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

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/))

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Overeating means we’re consuming more energy than we’re expending
-The Inanity of Overeating
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the science of dietary fat is not nearly as simple as it once appeared
-The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
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We get fat not because we eat too much but because we eat carbohydrate-rich foods and drink carbohydrate-rich beverages
-The Case for Keto
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The idea that carbohydrates could cause obesity was swept aside
-What Makes You Fat: Too Many Calories, or the Wrong Carbohydrates?
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Obesity is not intractable; fixing it requires us to change what we eat, rather than how much
-Why do we get fat?
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A disease that was vanishingly rare in the 19th Century now afflicts one in every nine Americans
-Rethinking Diabetes
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And yet dietary recommendations for diabetes have changed little, if at all
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"Gary Taubes is a brave and bold science journalist who does not accept conventional wisdom"

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"Gary Taubes is a science journalist and historian, and his books on nutrition are deep and thorough"

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"Once again, the brilliant Gary Taubes manages to make a complex scientific subject easy to understand"

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"On Sunday, July 7, science writer Gary Taubes created a big fat splash"

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"Gary Taubes deserves a national science medal for helping to raise the critical question of why the food we eat is killing us"

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"Gary Taubes's meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition"

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"In making the case against sugar, Gary Taubes details the often insidious efforts by the sugar industry to hide how harmful it is"

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