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Adele Hite, Nina Teicholz, and Logical Fallacies
Introduction Some weeks ago I got a call from a reporter.1 This reporter had just attended an event called “Politics of the Plate: The Evolution of American Food Policy” presented by Real Clear...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: A Critical Review; Chapter 8 – The Science of...
Introduction This is another post in my ongoing series of posts on Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories (GCBC). Several of the publications that Taubes cites for various claims are amazingly...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: A Critical Review; Chapter 24 – The Carbohydrate...
Introduction This is another post in my ongoing series of posts on Gary Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories (GCBC). One of the main challenges I have encountered while reviewing this chapter is that...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: A Critical Review; Chapter 23 – The Fattening...
Introduction This is something of an ongoing review, chapter by chapter, of Gary Taubes’s extraordinarily dense book Good Calories, Bad Calories, which I usually shorten to GCBC. You might even...
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The Drama of Nutrition
Intro When I started this podcast/blog a few years ago, I was basically doing it as a way to kill time. I really liked listening to podcasts, I enjoyed talking to people smarter than me, and I enjoyed...
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The Case Against The Case Against Sugar
Introduction As I read through Gary Taubes’s The Case Against Sugar – or as I sometimes refer to it “CAS” for short – one question kept popping up in my mind: Was this a book that needed to be...
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Gary Taubes Eviscerates Seth Yoder
That’s right, folks. I’ve been disemboweled. Introduction This is a very strange post for me to write. It’s basically a rejoinder to a rejoinder to a rejoinder. So apparently some economist named Miles...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: A Critical Review; Chapter 5 – Diseases of...
Introduction Blogging is a dying art form, but recent events have led me to at least attempt to complete my review of Good Calories, Bad Calories. Below is my entry for Chapter Five: Diseases of...
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The Case for Keto: A Critical Review
I also cross-posted this review to substack, because that’s where all the cool kids are publishing stuff nowadays. Introduction Here we are again. Another Gary Taubes book. After reading it, I have...
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Red Pen Reviews Fundraiser
Folks, An organization that I helped to start, along with several other academic types that are all much smarter than me, is having a fundraiser this week. Briefly, the organization is called Red Pen...
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