¡°Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.¡±
-The New York Times
¡°Well-researched and thoughtful. . . . Taubes has done us a great service by bringing these issues to the table.¡±
-The Boston Globe
¡°Compelling and convincing. . . . Taubes breaks it down for us from historical and, more importantly, scientific perspectives.¡±
-Philadelphia Daily News
¡°Taubes¡¯s critique is so pointed and vociferous that reading him will change the way you look at calories, the food pyramid, and your daily diet.¡±
-Men¡¯s Journal
¡°Taubes is a science journalist¡¯s science journalist, who researches topics to the point of obsession-actually, well beyond that point-and never dumbs things down for readers.¡±
-Scientific American
¡°Important. . . . This excellent book, built on sound research and common sense, contains essential information.¡±
-Tucson Citizen
Author's Note -- Introduction: The Original Sin -- Book I. Biology, Not Physics -- 1. Why Were They Fat? -- 2. The Elusive Benefits of Undereating -- 3. The Elusive Benefits of Exercise -- 4. The Significance of Twenty Calories a Day -- 5. Why Me? Why There? Why Then? -- 6. Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 1 -- 7. Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 2 -- 8. Head Cases -- Book II. Adiposity 101 -- 9. The Laws of Adiposity -- 10. A Historical Digression on Lipophilia -- 11. A Primer on the Regulation of Fat -- 12. Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa) -- 13. What We Can Do -- 14. Injustice Collecting -- 15. Why Diets Succeed and Fail -- 16. A Historical Digression on the Fattening Carbohydrate -- 17. Meat or Plants? -- 18. The Nature of a Healthy Diet -- 19. Following Through -- Afterword to the Anchor Edition: Why Do We Get Fat Answers to Frequently Asked Questions -- Appendix: The No Sugar, No Starch Diet -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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Gary Taubes is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers, the only print journalist so recognized. He is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. He lives in Oakland.