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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 writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. For decades we have been... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Pennington: Add a description of this character.
- Jean Mayer
- Burkitt
- Atkins
- John Yudkin
- Gofman
- Himsworth
- Mcgovern
- Campbell
- Albert Stunkard
- Ahrens
- Neel
- Stefansson
- Ancel Keys
- Krauss
- Trowell
- Brobeck
- Gordon
- Reaven
- Hilde Bruch
- Eisenhower
- Jeremiah Stamler
- Bauer
- Ranson
- Ohlson
- Sims
- Van Itallie
- Astwood
- Berson
- George Bray
- Anderson
- Jane Brody
- Von Noorden
- Rony
- Hirsch
- Cahill
- Donaldson
- Rifkind
- Rubner
- Peter Cleave
- Rose
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Pima
- Framingham
- Louis Newburgh
- New York Hospital
- Japan
- America
- South Africa
- India
- Chicago
- Europe
- New England
- London
- Honolulu
- Harvard
- University Of California
- Israel
- Kenya
- Hrdliaa
- Berkeley
- Masai
- Crete
- United Kingdom
- Minnesota
- Tokelau
- Sioux
- Philadelphia
- Samburu
- Australia
- Italy
- New Zealand
- Hegsted
- San Francisco
- Uganda
- Britain
- Jerusalem
- Dayton
- Canada
- Finland
- Massachusetts
- Durban
- West Africa
- Cornell
- Diabetes
First Sentence edit
President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered his first heart attack at the age of sixty-four.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: A Brief History of Banting
PART ONE: THE FAT-CHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS
The Eisenhower Paradox
The Inadequacy of Lesser Evidence
Creation of Consensus
The Greater Good
PART TWO: THE CARBOHYDRATE HYPOTHESIS
Diseases of Civilization
Diabetes and the Carbohydrate Hypothesis
Fiber
The Science of the Carbohydrate Hypothesis
Triglycerides and the Complications of Cholesterol
The Role of Insulin
The Significance of Diabetes
Sugar
Dementia, Cancer, and Aging
PART THREE: OBESITY AND THE REGULATION OF WEIGHT
The Mythology of Obesity
Hunger
Paradoxes
Conservation of Energy
Fattening Diets
Reducing Diets
Unconventional Diets
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, I: Fat Metabolism
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, II: Insulin
The Fattening Carbohydrate Disappears
The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, III: Hunger and Satiety
Epilogue
Afterword to the Anchor Edition
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gary Taubes (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
ISBN: 1400040787
Page Count: 640
Publisher: Knopf; 1 edition
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 25, 2007
ISBN: 1400040787
Page Count: 640
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 613.283
Subjects edit
- Books › Professional & Technical › Medical › Medicine › Internal Medicine › Occupational
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Diets › Weight Loss
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Special Conditions › Low Carbohydrate
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Diets › Healthy
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Diets › Low Carb
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Personal Health › Healthy Living
- Books › Medicine › Specialties › Occupational & Industrial Medicine
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Nutrition
- Books › Science
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