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GARY TAUBES is cofounder and senior scientific advisor of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). He's an award-winning science and health journalist, the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous Best of anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He lives in Oakland, California.
Author's Note | p. ix |
Introduction: The Original Sin | p. 3 |
Biology, Not Physics | |
Why Were They Fat? | p. 15 |
The Elusive Benefits of Undereating | p. 33 |
The Elusive Benefits of Exercise | p. 40 |
The Significance of Twenty Calories a Day | p. 57 |
Why Me? Why There? Why Then? | p. 62 |
Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 1 | p. 72 |
Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 2 | p. 77 |
Head Cases | p. 80 |
Adiposity 101 | |
The Laws of Adiposity | p. 89 |
A Historical Digression on "Lipophilia" | p. 106 |
A Primer on the Regulation of Fat | p. 112 |
Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa) | p. 127 |
What We Can Do | p. 134 |
Injustice Collecting | p. 140 |
Why Diets Succeed and Fail | p. 144 |
A Historical Digression on the Fattening Carbohydrate | p. 148 |
Meat or Plants? | p. 163 |
The Nature of a Healthy Diet | p. 173 |
Following Through | p. 201 |
Afterword to the Anchor Edition: Why Do We Get Fat Answers to Frequently Asked Questions | p. 219 |
Appendix: The "No Sugar, No Starch" Diet | p. 229 |
Acknowledgments | p. 237 |
Sources | p. 239 |
Illustration Credits | p. 257 |
Index | p. 259 |
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