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Gary Taubes

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American science writer

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22

Top works

  • המלכודת המתוקה של הסוכר
  • The Case Against Sugar
  • Global Positioning System
  • The Case Against Sugar
  • Anti-Alzheimer's Formula

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1956-04-30

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Quotes

  • The reason for this book is straightforward: despite the depth and certainty of our faith that saturated fat is the nutritional bane of our lives and that obesity is caused by overeating and sedentary behavior, there has always been copious evidence to suggest that those assumptions are incorrect, and that evidence is continuing to mount.
  • Obesity levels in the United States remained relatively constant from the early 1960s through 1980, between 12 and 14 percent of the population; over the next twenty-five years, coincident with the official recommendations to eat less fat and so more carbohydrates, it surged to over 30 percent.
  • Skepticism, however, cannot be removed from the scientific process. Science does not function without it.
  • Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.
  • From the inception of the diet-heart hypothesis in the early 1950s, those who argued that dietary fat caused heart disease accumulated the evidential equivalent of a mythology to support their belief. These myths are still passed on faithfully to the present day…. The facts did not support these claims, but the myths served a purpose, and so they remained unquestioned.
  • Despite myriad attempts, researchers were unable to establish that patients with atherosclerosis had significantly more cholesterol in their bloodstream than those who didn’t.

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1956-04-30
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