Diet and Food Links

Gary Taubes

You can read Gary Taubes stuff. He is a science writer, who was sucked into the diet controversies about 10 years ago. Books and articles in NY Times Magazine, among others. http://www.garytaubes.com/

Books:

• Why we get Fat
  How we metabolize different kinds of food.
  The big lie: Calories In - Calories Out does NOT drive weight gain.
  (It's really more the other way around. Metabolism drives weight gain by changing Calories In - Calories Out. With metabolism driving weight gain, it does not matter how much we eat, we will gain weight; Diet (and heredity) can change how we metabolize food.)
  If that did not make sense, read the book!
  How you can get fat on a low calorie diet.
  Does a high sugar / high carbohydrate diet cause heart disease and cancer?
  Why don't we see a low carbohydrate diet being promoted by the the American Heart Association, the FDA, or the American Dietetic Association?
  
• Good Calories, Bad Calories
  Similar material, but more exposition than Why we get Fat.
  Can a high fat, low carb diet be healthy?
  High sugar/carbs can cause dementia, too??
  Is the study of Nutrition scientific?
  How to get your nutrition study funded.
  

Look for these articles in NYTimes Magazine:

• What if its all been a big fat lie (2004)
• Is Sugar Toxic (2011)

There are online videos linked from his site.

This video is from an appearance in 2011 in Walnut Creek:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL4427DBF43190B080
(Search youtube for "Gary Taubes Walnut Creek")

Robert Lustig

For Sugar, there is also the Robert Lustig: "Sugar, the bitter truth" (search for it on Youtube -- 90 minutes.

A 90-minute discussion of the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology. He does not like Coca-cola.

Lustig is a specialist on pediatric hormone disorders and the leading expert in childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Warning: After viewing this, you probably won't be drinking gatorate, soda, or fruit juice.

Started as a cardiologist, and moved into dieting and nutrition when he found out about low carbohydrate diets (he was far from the first), and set up a clinic in NYC, along with a radio show in the 70s. He passed away some time ago, but his name lives on. I find his books "Atkins Diet Revolution", for one fairly interesting. Read Gary Taubes to find out why this is not in the mainstream.