Good calories, bad calories
Subtitle: fats, carbs, and the controversial science of diet and health
By: Gary Taubes
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9781400033461
Subjects: Physiological effect; Low-carbohydrate diet; Nutritionally induced diseases; Weight loss; Refined Carbohydrates
Description: Not another diet book: After seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, science writer Taubes shows that almost everything we believe about a healthy diet is wrong. We are taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more--yet we see unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, via their dramatic effect on insulin, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. He also argues that there is no compelling scientific evidence that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease. Based on the evidence, he concludes that the only healthy way to remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of carbohydrates we eat.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : A brief history of banting -- -- pt. 1. The; title: fat-cholesterol hypothesis -- -- 1. The; title: Eisenhower paradox -- -- 2. The; title: inadequacy of lesser evidence -- -- 3.; title: Creation of consensus -- -- 4. The; title: greater good -- -- pt. 2. The; title: carbohydrate hypothesis -- -- 5.; title: Diseases of civilization -- -- 6.; title: Diabetes and the carbohydrate hypothesis -- -- 7.; title: Fiber -- -- 8. The; title: science of the carbohydrate hypothesis -- -- 9.; title: Triglycerides and the complications of cholesterol -- -- 10. The; title: role of insulin -- -- 11. The; title: significance of diabetes -- -- 12.; title: Sugar -- -- 13.; title: Dementia, cancer, and aging -- -- pt. 3.; title: Obesity and the regulation of weight -- -- 14. The; title: mythology of obesity -- -- 15.; title: Hunger -- -- 16.; title: Paradoxes -- -- 17.; title: Conservation of energy -- -- 18.; title: Fattening diets -- -- 19.; title: Reducing diets -- -- 20.; title: Unconventional diets -- -- 21. The; title: carbohydrate hypothesis, 1 : fat metabolism -- -- 22. The; title: carbohydrate hypothesis, 2 : insulin -- -- 23. The; title: fattening carbohydrate disappears -- -- 24. The; title: carbohydrate hypothesis, 3 : hunger and satiety --; title: Epilogue.