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The Willpower Paradox and the Roots of Fat Shaming
Eating too much is not a physiological condition but a behavior. If that’s what causes obesity, then how is this not a behavioral problem?
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Gary Taubes
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Ultra-Processing Is the Bathwater. What About the Baby?
The recent obsession with ultra-processed foods spotlights a world of industry-related issues, while rendering sugar and refined grains almost benign in…
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Gary Taubes
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Fighting Obesity? The New England Journal of Medicine Has a Calorie Fixation
If the journal editors can't accept uncertainty in the science of weight regulation, the physicians never will.
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Gary Taubes
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Bing Crosby Science: Ultraprocessed Food edition.
What do you do when the latest clinical trial contradicts the core assumption of UPF science? How about accentuate the positive and eliminate the…
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Gary Taubes
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Can Obesity Be Predicted? Does Inactivity Cause It? And What About Corn Syrup?
The latest nutrition news tells us more about the state of the science (and the reporting) than it does what we need to know.
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Gary Taubes
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The Curious Lessons of Calorie Restriction
What can we learn about aging well from the "potential downsides" of living hungry?
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Gary Taubes
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Of Course Overeating Makes Us Fat... Except When It Doesn't?
What a pair of experiments--one a thought experiment, one a century old--tell us about the illogic of overeating.
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Gary Taubes
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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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