50k-food health: Low carb - Gary Taubes on the evils of carbohydrates

25.5.11

nb: Scientists now saying carbs, not fat, are to blame for America's ills - latimes.com

below a short abc (US) feature introducing low carb proponent Gary Taubes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Taubes):

in 2002 Taubes first challenged traditional wisdom on the basis for obesity (ie: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/health/28zuger.html ) and provoked a lot of debate on accepted dogmas in the process.he advocates a high saturated fat dietary intake.

most recently he has written about the sugar-cancer connection (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html ), with parallels to the the Robert Lustig's disease/sugar thesis

some "Top Comments" from You Tube ( see all ):

Gary Taubes is what Galileo was to Copernicus. He has basically taken the discovery of scientists prior to him, who stated that insulin causes fat accumulation, and has made that ignored information known to the masses, and for his generosity, he is experiencing a backlash from those who uphold the prevailing orthodoxy of calories in vs. calories out. I guarantee you, that a generation from now, Taubes will be revered as a science revolutionary along with Atkins, Yudkin, and Lustig.
alphacause 1 year ago 13

Taubes’s mention of General Mill’s donations to Harvard opened my eyes to the huge influence corporations can have on top research institutions. This is an unavoidable consequence of the fact that scientific endeavors require huge amounts of time and money. I am also surprised about the scientific validity of the Atkins diet and the examples Taubes used to counter popular conceptions of obesity e.g. the Fat Louisa paradox and early twentieth century research on adiposity.
pattynads 7 months ago 4