Good Calories, Bad Calories
Excellent Calories, Terrible Calories Books
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In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science novelist Gary Taubes shows us that nearly everything we judge about the nature of a healthy diet is incorrect.
For decades we have been taught that stout is terrible for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy consequence is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugars–via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates stout accumulation–and that the key to excellent health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are excellent calories, and terrible ones.
Excellent Calories
These are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint.
Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables.
Terrible Calories
These are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us stout and increase our risk of chronic disease—all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they control, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.)
Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer.
Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when stout and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then –wrongly–were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, broadcast health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the nutritional trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be.
With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated stout and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose consequence and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to exchange the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat effectively none at all.
The 11 Critical Conclusions of Excellent Calories, Terrible Calories:
1. Nutritional stout, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease.
2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they control, the greater the effect on our health, consequence, and well-being.
3. Sugars—sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specifically—are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they control overloads the liver.
4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely nutritional causes of cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times.
5. Obesity is a disorder of excess stout accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior.
6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller.
7. Exercise does not make us lose excess stout; it makes us hungry.
8. We get stout because of an imbalance—a disequilibrium—in the hormonal regulation of stout tissue and stout metabolism. More stout is stored in the stout tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the stout tissue reverses this imbalance.
9. Insulin is the primary regulator of stout storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as stout. When insulin levels fall, we release stout from our stout tissue and burn it for fuel.
10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us stout and ultimately cause obesity. By driving stout accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and fall the quantity of energy we expend in metabolism and corporal activity.
11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be.
Excellent Calories, Terrible Calories is a tour de force of scientific investigation–certain to redefine the ongoing debate about the foods we eat and their effects on our health.
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The author doesn’t get it. This book is 400 pages of the driest, most inaccurate and criminally irresponsible rantings I have ever read.
One of the hypotheses of the book is that sugar – SUGAR – is the leading cause of heart disease. I have three words for you, Mr. Taubes – Doctor Dean Ornish. He’s the world’s leading authority om heart disease, he’s saved countless lives, and he’s reached the conclusion that sugar plays a tiny, incremental role in coronary artery disease. The main causal factors of Coronary Artery Disease are FAT and CHOLESTEROL. Also, lack of exercise. To suggest otherwise to sell a few books and pad your bank account is reprehensible.
Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
Rating: 1 / 5
Carbs are not BAD for you, just like fats aren’t terrible for you; TOO MANY carbs and fats are BAD for you. The whole trick to being healthy is calories in = calories out. If you eat too much you’ll gain consequence; if you want to lose consequence, then you need to cut back on calories or exercise or both; you need a 500 calorie deficit per day to lose consequence. All of the authors who tell you that carbs are terrible…they have a book, and they want to sell the book. They’re just playing on your desire to lose consequence. They just want your money. Theres no secrets in the diet world: calories in = calories out.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is the most terrible diet book I have ever read. It is more like a Master’s Thesis on diets that don’t work. I have read 2/3rds of it and don’t know yet what he thinks does work. I do not plot to end the book, I would be bored to death and still not know what to eat.
Rating: 1 / 5
Taubes uses ridiculous comparisons and unfounded statements. Want to know what really works? How people recover from cancer? Check out Hallelujah Acres. And for real nutritional science look at The Plates Study by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, which includes the largest nutritional study ever accomplished–880 million people!
Rating: 1 / 5
How many of you posting positive reviews of Taubes’ book are physicians? I talked to my cardiologist, who coincidentially had just finished the book. He used terms like “frightening rhetoric”, “ill-conceived”, “junk science” and “terrible, terrible.” The rest of what he said was too profane to be printed here.
Please, folks, avoid this book. The life you save may be your own.
Rating: 1 / 5