Rather, all of us are fulfilling a fixed biological mandate, just as growing children are. The thin are not virtuous and disciplined. The overweight are not lazy hogs who eat too much and exercise too little.
We’ve got the whole thing backward, he argues. Taubes proceeds to stand the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head in a particularly intriguing and readable synthesis. Fair enough, although one does begin to wonder if a line of protein bars is not far behind.īut all that aside, Mr. Taubes openly admits he is aiming for a broader audience and bigger impact. With the new, smaller and more focused version, Mr. Second, the new book is not really a new book at all it is a sort of CliffsNotes version of “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” a long, dense tome Mr. Thus, though it is bursting with data, a reader has no way of knowing whether other data has been overlooked or minimized to support the author’s points. Taubes is not out to sell you anything (other than his book), it is still a manifesto. Taubes’s book “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It.”Ī few things to understand at the outset: First, despite the happy fact that unlike many in this field, Mr. But those who are curious about the science behind it all could do worse than to pick up Mr. In the opposite corner we have Gary Taubes, the science journalist who has thrown in his lot with the high-fat, high-protein crowd, arguing in his new book that the overweight should just put down their apples and walk away: “If we’re predisposed to put on fat, it’s a good bet that most fruit will make the problem worse, not better.”Īt this point all eaters, fat or lean, could be forgiven for slamming the door on all expert dietary input, forever.
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