gary taubes (@garytaubes) on X (original) (raw)

Author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case for Keto, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Bad Science, and Nobel Dreams

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  More signs of paradigms shifting. This would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy
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  I wish I could take credit for this. I can't. And I don't know who deserves the credit. But thank you, whoever you are. The caption: "Correlation vs. Causality."
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  If this were a drug, it would be all over the front pages.
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  Some good news: Johns Hopkins School of Med researchers report diabetes reversal with an LCHF/keto diet in a community setting. Nice.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32193200/
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  We’ve known since the 19th Century how to reverse type 2 diabetes with diet alone. How and why was this knowledge lost? Why did MDs insist on drug therapy instead? Why do they still? I explain the history & science in my new book, Rethinking Diabetes.
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  Interested in weight control -- slimming down -- for the new year. My new book, The Case for Keto, can help. Read the first chapter for free here: gary-taubes.ck.page/30b0a6a3b7
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  This is Curt Richter talking about his diabetic rat experiments published in 1941. It raises an obvious question: Could Richter's rats have been smarter than the expert committees of the American Diabetes Association? I'm just saying....
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  Cornell is fund-raising for a study on ketogenic diets and cancer. Please share. Please give.
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  Nina Teicholz,
  @bigfatsurprise
  , is one of the few journalists, if not the only one, investigating nutrition researchers and the web of conflicts of interest entangling their work. This is required reading.
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  I was at a Whole Foods last week in suburban NYC. Seems
  @KerrygoldUSA
  thinks people want to eat reduced-fat butter. Maybe not their best idea. The space on the left is where regular Kerrygold was sold out. Reduced-fat is on the right.
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  Jane Brody seems to think that those of us who ended up on LCHF/ketogenic diets never thought to try portion control first. What were we thinking? If I could find the head-slap emoji, I'd use it here. Instead...☹️