Gary Taubes Quotes

United States, Journalist
April 30, 1956

Gary Taubes is an American journalist, writer and low-carbohydrate diet advocate. He is the author of Nobel Dreams , Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion , and Good Calories, Bad Calories , titled The Diet Delusion in the UK and Australia. His book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It was released in December 2010. His main hypothesis is that carbohydrates stimulate the secretion of insulin, which causes the body to store fat. Some of the views propounded by Taubes are inconsistent with known science surrounding obesity.

In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

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- Increase
- Diabetes
- Obese
Any diet can be made healthy or at least healthier—from vegan to meat-heavy—if the high-glycemic-index carbohydrates and sugars are removed, or reduced significantly.

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- Diet
- Sugar
- Removed

The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.

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- Yourself
- Fool
- Principle
As for women, if anything, the higher their cholesterol, the longer they lived.

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- Women
- Lived
- Cholesterol
We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.

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- Getting
- Fat
- Overeating
The salient question is whether the increasing awareness of heart disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

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The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.

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Sugar does induce the same responses in the region of the brain known as the “reward center”—technically, the nucleus accumbens—as do nicotine, cocaine, heroin, and alcohol.

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- Alcohol
- Sugar
- Cocaine
To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.

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