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Gary Taubes

Don't Train Yourself Like a Dog

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.20.2012 | Impact
Read More: Habits, Nutrition, Health, Fitness, Food, Petter Attia, Weight, Diet, Gary Taubes, Nusi, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Habits, Obesity, Sugar, Obesity Crisis, Obesity in America, Obesity Epidemic, Impact News
Gretchen Rubin

For people, ideas matter. If, based on what they assume is sound science, people believe that eating X or Y or Z is healthful, that belief is very likely to influence their behavior. So it's important that the science shaping that behavior is accurate. That's what NuSI is going to tackle.

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Perils of a Sugar-Coated Scapegoat

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 08.04.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Obesity, Diet, Fructose, Gary Taubes, Sugar, Robert Lustig, Atkins Diet, Calories, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Diabetes, Onaat, Food Industry, Diets, Personal Health, Sugar and Diet, Low Sugar, Sugar in Diet, Diet and Nutrition, Sugar Diet, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

Excess dietary sugar is harmful, and among the salient liabilities of the modern food supply. Sugar is not poison, however. And yes, I think the distinction matters enough to keep fighting for it. Here's why.

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What’s A Calorie?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.22.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Energy, Healthy Living Health News, Calories, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Food, Weight Loss, Kilocalorie, Portion Control, Diet, Mark Bittman, Gary Taubes, Nutrigenomics, Genovive, Food Calories, Calorie a Calorie, Diet and Nutrition, How Many Calories, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

We are wasting our energy debating the nature of the calorie -- which is, simply, and incontrovertibly, a measure of energy.

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Want a Bikini Bod for the Summer? Five Health and Fitness Books to Skip

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 08.07.2011 | Books
Read More: 4-Hour Body, Fitness Books, Obesity Crisis, Timothy Ferriss, Health and Fitness, Dr. Murad, Gary Taubes, Low-Carb Diets, Books News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

School's (almost) out for the summer! Instead of telling you a bunch of health and fitness books that you need to read, I'm giving you official permission to skip these five.

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LIVE Q&A: Ask An Food Science Author Gary Taubes Anything

Posted 06.20.2011 | Home
Read More: Food, Food Science, Obesity, Gary Taubes, Health, Why We Get Fat, Home News

There's no getting around it: obesity in the United States has steadily been increasing over the past twenty years. And it's a problem that seems to b...

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How Do We Become Fat?

Fred Hahn | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Leonard Lopate, Fat, Wnyc, Carbohydrates, WNYC Public Radio, Gary Taubes, Please Explain, Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance, Obesity in America, Weight Loss Tips, Losing-Weight-by-Sleeping, Obesity Research, Obesity Epidemic, Insulin, Healthy Living News
Fred Hahn

You can't exercise your fat away ladies and gentlemen. You have to speak the correct language to your body if you wish it to release fat from your fat cells.

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