Gary Taubes

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Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956 in Rochester , New York ) is an American author . He has authored various award-winning non-fiction books and articles on food and scientific misconduct .

His best-known book is Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It , published in 2010 , in which he advocates a low -carbohydrate diet.

Life

Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford, where he received his master's degree in 1978. In 1981 he earned a Masters Degree in Journalism from Columbia University and began working as a journalist for Discover magazine in 1982 . Initially, he wrote articles and books with a focus on physics, but more recently began studying medicine and nutrition.

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His books deal primarily with scientific controversies: for example, he critically examined the Nobel Prize-winning work of the physicist Carlo Rubbia and analyzed the claim by the scientists Pons and Fleischmann to have detected cold nuclear fusion in 1989.

Good calories, bad calories

In this work, Taubes argues that certain types of carbohydrates - and by no means fats or just excess calories - are responsible for the increased incidence of obesity in the population.

Taubes argues that the regulation of adipose tissue by insulin and its importance for obesity has so far been neglected and supports his view with the observation that the introduction of refined carbohydrates into the diet of traditional societies has led to an increase in so-called diseases of civilization such as obesity and heart disease.

Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It

Taubes emphasizes in this book that the hypothesis that obese people are responsible for their lot because they overeat and did not move enough falls short. Rather, due to the human past as a hunter-gatherer, a genetic response to carbohydrates ingested with food is preserved: namely, the release of insulin, which is overstimulated by modern diets that are rich in refined sugar and thus can cause obesity.

Publications (selection)

  • 1986: Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment , Random House , ISBN 978-0-394-54503-5
  • 1993: Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (" Bad Science: The Short Life and The Weird Times of Cold Fusion "), Random House , ISBN 978-0-394-58456-0
  • 2007: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease (“Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging Conventional Knowledge About Diet, Weight Control, and Disease ”), Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-1 -4000-4078-0
  • 2010: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (“ Why We Get Fat: And What To Do Then”)
  • 2017: The Case against Sugar ("The Case Against Sugar")

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gary Taube's Biography. GT.com, April 13, 1999, accessed December 31, 2015 .
  2. ↑ krautreporter.de , February 9, 2017, Theresa Bäuerlein: Sugar could be worse than you think (February 24, 2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Deaf, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , New York