A review by s_smiadak
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes

4.0

3.5 This was a hard book to read because it went through study after study and could have been more concise but the information is important and worth understanding. His conclusions are basically that dietary fat is not a cause of obesity or any other chronic disease but rather our problem is carbohydrates because of their effect on insulin secretion and how it disrupts a body's homeostasis. The more refined and easily digestible the carbs/sugars/starches, the worse havoc they wreak on our bodies. Carbs also increase hunger and decrease our energy/physical activity.

I appreciate how he dispels the notion that obesity is just due to a person's lack of control and/or laziness and instead defines it as a disorder of excess fat accumulation due to hormone imbalance/disregulation in adipose tissue. Again, he concludes that because carbohydrates stimulate insulin secretion, they are the leading factor causing us to synthesize and store fat ultimately causing obesity.