This detailed review of the origins of the current consensus on a healthy diet and the cause of obesity is troubling on several levels. Either Taubes is mistaken and biased, or everything I have been taught about diet, exercise, lipid treatment, and obesity has been wrong. His review also indicts science as it is currently practiced, with consensus breeding more consensus even when the evidence is very weak.
His basic message is that carbohydrates cause obesity mediated by insulin. And that thermodynamics ("a calorie is a calorie is a calorie") has misled us by mistaking correlation (increased calorie intake with increased weight) with cause (eating fat causes obesity). Read this book if you dare.
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