Good Calories, Bad Calories

Good Calories, Bad Calories

by Gary Taubes

4 mentors recommend this 330 pages

In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes 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 with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidem

ISBN: 9781400040780

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Zooko Wilcox

Zooko Wilcox

Technology

"When it came out ten years ago, it was the definitive study of the history and science of human nutrition in the 20th century."

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Peter Attia

Peter Attia

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"One of Peter Attia's answers to "any books you feel would make your reading list?"

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Nassim Taleb

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"Read it twice, once for the diet, once a a rich document in the history of science."