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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…
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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?
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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?
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Gary Taubes
Is There a Boring Truth About Obesity?
Why are Derek Thompson and Andrew Huberman certain the obesity epidemic is as simple as elementary physics?
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Gary Taubes
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
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
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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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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