In a previous blog I discussed the historical perspective that Gary Taubes gives in his new book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease. Now I'd like to discuss the fascinating way of looking at weight gain, hunger, and exercise that Taubes, a science journalist, came to believe... Read more
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I've been reading Gary Taubes's new book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease. It's a dense read (with about 2,000 references, and no, I didn't check them all), but I've finally finished it, and I recommend it to anyone... Read more
One of my neighbors gave me an old home-health book called Know Thyself. It was published in 1911, and the introduction says, "To this book, father and mother can go as a rich treasure-house for wealth of knowledge and wisdom to guide and direct their children." The authors caution mother and father to keep the book away from... Read more
I've started reading Gary Taubes's book Good Calories, Bad Calories. It includes a lot of information, and it's 460 pages long. I want to read it slowly and critically, so I won't finish it for some time. But he raises a lot of interesting questions, even when you haven't gotten very far. The book is sort of like... Read more
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