The new book by Gary Taubes is making me ponder what I know about eating, weight and disease. In Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes asserts that there's no scientific evidence that cholesterol and fat cause heart disease, or that overeating and laziness cause obesity. Nutrition, he says, purports to be a science but functions like a religion, where theories are not tested but become cemented into dogma.
The book's title is misleading, making it sound like a new diet fad. Barbara...
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