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Blah Health Journalism: Meat, Sauerkraut and Politics Edition.
What's it take to get the traditional media (or at least The New York Times) to understand the appeal of unconventional diets?
Aug 9
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Karl-Anthony Towns, Food Noise, and Why GLP-1 Drugs Quiet the Brain
The Liver?! What's the liver got to do with it?
Jul 28
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Gary Taubes
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Shouldn’t Giving Birth Be (Reasonably) Easy?
The Obstetrical Dilemma. What really makes human childbirth so hard?
Jul 12
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Gary Taubes
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"Bad Air" or the Tobacco Industry Playbook?
Which is the better metaphor for the controversy over ultra-processed foods?
Jun 28
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Gary Taubes
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"The dead end of the energetics view"
I spoke at NIH on Friday describing how pre-WW2 medical scientists dismissed the simplistic notion that we get fat because we eat too much.
Jun 14
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Gary Taubes
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Shouldn't Where We Get Fat (and When) Tell Us Something About Why?
More observations from the history of a very bad idea.
May 31
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Gary Taubes
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Diet or Drugs, Calories or Carbohydrates? Longevity medicine comes for your dog.
Beneath the headlines, the carbohydrate-insulin model is now hiding in plain sight.
May 17
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Gary Taubes
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The History of a Very Bad Idea: Understanding Obesity Before Calories In and Out.
How would you discuss the cause of obesity if you weren't burdened by the notion that it's an energy balance disorder?
May 3
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Gary Taubes
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