The best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar reveals why the established rules about eating healthy might be the wrong approach to weight loss for millions of people, and how low-carbohydrate, high-fat/ketogenic diets can help so many of us achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life. Based on twenty years of investigative reporting and interviews with 100 practicing physicians who embrace the keto lifetstyle as the best prescription for their patients' health, Taubes's book puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we've come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice. This book sets out to revolutionize how we think about eating healthy, and what foods we can and can't eat to prevent and reverse both obesity and diabetes. For years, health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. So why doesn't it work for everyone? Gary Taubes, whose seminal book Good Calories, Bad Calories and cover stories for The New York Times Magazine changed the way we look at nutrition and health, sets the record straight, clarifying a century of misunderstanding about the differences between diet, weight control, and health. The Case for Keto gives us a revolutionary manifesto for the twenty-first-century fight against obesity and diabetes.
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"Gary Taubs is the gold standard for scientific journalism, scientific skepticism, science and investigative journalism.
His previous books, specifically "Good Calories Bad calories" changed my views not only on nutrition but on what is science how you should evaluate evidence, how you should evaluate the pronouncements of experts.
Moreover Taub's books changed my nutrition and my life, from my early 40s to my early 50s the change was radical to the better, I wouldn't exaggerate to say that my life was saved.
This book is a summary but I'll urge all to read "Good Calories Bad Calories", agree or not it will enlighten you or might even change your life and you outlook."
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Elis (5 out of 5 stars)