Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It and Good Calories, Bad Calories (The Diet Delusion in the UK). Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American...See more
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It and Good Calories, Bad Calories (The Diet Delusion in the UK). Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981). See less
Gary Taubes's Featured Books
Gary Taubes book reviews
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It
CLEAR, INFORMATIVE, and HELPFUL
Gary Taubes has taken the extensive research he did into published scientific papers and written a very sensible, helpful, readable book. His first one, which goes into more detail and is the longer ... Read More
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It
Fat and You
by Jim O, Aug 30, 2012
Quick read. A logical presentation of studies done, misinformation you've received, what is going on in your system and why. Let's you make informed decision concerning food! Read More
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It
Fabulous Book
If you want to sort fact from fiction - this is your book! As all who have struggled with their weight know, the USDA and government officials don't really have it right. Forget the food pyramid ... Read More