Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

Author's Biography

Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an American science writer. He is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), which is titled The Diet Delusion in the UK. He has won the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 1996-97.

Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford (MS, 1978). After receiving a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981, Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982. Since then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines. Originally focusing on physics issues, his interests have more recently turned to medicine and nutrition.

Taubes’ books have all dealt with scientific controversies. Nobel Dreams takes a critical look at the politics and experimental techniques behind the Nobel Prize-winning work of physicist Carlo Rubbia. Bad Science is a chronicle of the short-lived media frenzy surrounding the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiments of 1989. (from- http://www.gary Taubes.com/bio)

Gary Taubes at the Walnut Creek Library on 4/2/11 - about his book "Good calories Bad calories" (Obesity, heart disease).

Gary Taubes at OSUMC

 

Other Books by Gary Taubes:

The Diet Delusion: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Loss and Disease 
 


Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion Gary Taubes
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion


Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment Gary Taubes
Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment

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STEVITA

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                               Stevia compared to other sugars.

Per 2 Teaspoons of  the sugars below

                       

Stevia                          Natural & Nontoxic         0 calories                    0g net carbs        0 gylcemic index

Cane Sugar                 Natural         32 calories                8g netcarbs              70 G.I

Nutrasweet                 Artificial         0 calories                       1g net carbs          0 G.I

(Aspartame)

Splenda                      Artificial          0 calories                        1g net carbs         0 G.I

(Sucralose)

Sweet 'N Low            Artificial          0 calories                       1g net carbs            0 G.I

(Saccharin)

Article by: Onyi Aimer