Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 32 mins)
By Gary Taubes
Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
Whispersync for Voice-ready
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For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number.
Nataliya says:
"Good, though tough to get through."
If you could sum up Good Calories, Bad Calories in three words, what would they be?
Bad science revealed.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Good Calories, Bad Calories?
How a large, often sited, study ignored their actual findings in favor of the accepted dogma which their findings contradicted.
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