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MAHA's New Dietary Guidelines, Pluribus, and the "Moonie Steve" Thought Experiment
The new guidelines do more than just put animal products at the top, they represent a shift in nutritional paradigms. What took so long?
 • Gary Taubes
What's It Mean to Overeat? Lessons From a (Very) Fat Mouse & the Once "Not-Thin Peter" Attia.
Does the ob/ob mouse have anything in common with the influential longevity doctor, Peter Attia? If Dr. Attia's experience is any indication, the answer…
 • Gary Taubes
Diet or Drugs for Diabetes? Which Comes First?
If the American Diabetes Association is Still Cautious About Very Low Carb Diets, Shouldn't We Trust Its Judgement?
 • Gary Taubes
Signs of Bad Science
What Do BPA, Cell Phones and Cancer, and the Vaccines-Autism Link Have in Common?
 • Gary Taubes
Lessons From the Original (Very) Fat Mouse
Is it possible that obesity science went hopelessly off the rails 30 years ago because of one obese mouse and one researcher who didn’t do his homework…
 • Gary Taubes
Obesity Science Has a Leadership Problem
What happens to a scientific discipline when questioning assumptions isn't on the agenda and second rate science is accepted as good enough?
 • Gary Taubes
The BodyBuilder Bias, or Why Lean People Can Be Clueless about the Nature of Obesity
If you can eat carb-rich meals and stay lean, does that mean we all can?
 • Gary Taubes
Uncertainty Principles
Uncertainty Principles
When what we don’t know is more important than what we do. Wrestling with conflict and controversy in science, medicine, health and nutrition.

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