Good Calories, Bad Calories

Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

By: Gary Taubes

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

This groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer and bestselling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case for Keto shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

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.

Called “a very important book,” by Andrew Weil and ”destined to change the way we think about food,” by Michael Pollan, this groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

Must read

A must read for anyone serious about understanding nutrition. Repeat with both scientific information, and thorough historical perspective.

Good book, with someone with nutritional knowledge

This book is a long book, but very informative and reinforces a lot of the theories that are known currently. This book currently reinforces recent research which I before never heard of so this book must have been ahead of its time. Good luck overall, but a little bit long.

A bit like drinking from a firehose, but worth it

A tour de force comprehensive review of all the 'science' behind the current thinking of what constitutes a healthy diet, pointing out the many flaws in the research and where people got it wrong. Not for the casual listener but more for those who truly want to understand the history of how here. Taubs could have condensed his story a lot but it is an amazing piece of comprehensive investigative reporting that is unparalleled and invaluable reading for those who really desire to understand all this. I don't regret my time investment in this book.

Amazing

Medical researchers are afraid that eating carbohydrates is what has caused the obesity epidemic therefore they refuse to do a study that would prove that and thus expose the corrupt nature of the research community!
They have overturned 150 years of medical practice with only options and not science! Thus 70% of Americans are now obese due to their recommendations to eat a high carbohydrate diet!

The most sensible thing if read all year

Please read…we are all getting sicker and sicker and need this information. We have to break the addiction to sugar.