Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes (PDF)

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Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Nutrition and obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic, that diabetes rates have soared and the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet and health aware today than generations ago. “The Diet Delusion” is an in-depth, scientific, groundbreaking examination of what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat, rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens and is essential reading for anyone trying to decide which diet – low-fat or low-carbohydrate – is truly the healthy diet. For years we have been deluded by the dieting industry. Now it’s time to find out the truth.

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⭐This is more than a great piece of investigative journalism – it is a fascinating and revealing expose on the state of science itself and how it is (not) managing the impact of politics, belief systems and sociology. Throughout the book, I was continually reminded of other great scientific controversies of the age – (global warming comes to mind), the same ingredients are there – the rush to judgement; the quashing of dissent; the concealing of contrary evidence and the almost religious fervour of believers.My father and I despite being avid walkers and exercising every day, are overweight and have been since birth. We have commenced making the dietary changes suggested by the book and we have continued reading on this topic – in 2 weeks we have lost a combined 9 kilograms.We are never hungry, general aches and pains are diminishing and we feel better each day. This may be placebo or it may be from weight loss. While not morbidly obese, we have both felt guilty and judged throughout our lives – fat is a weapon to beat people with and while you would not pick on a blind person or a deaf person it is always open season on “lazy” and “greedy” overweight people. As a (thin)doctor once said to me “no fat people came out of Auschwitz”; you must have a “hand to mouth” problem – no naturally thin person can truly understand the cruelty of the casual judgements that they make every day on people who are genetically programmed to be more solid.Thanks to this book, we are taking even more control of our lives and our weight.

⭐I am medical practitioner who has been obliged to rethink all that I thought I knew about diet and obesity after reading this exhaustive, user-friendly examination of the diet literature over the past 130 years. This is the first text I have bought and I didn’t realise that ebooks come in various versions – with pages numbered or un-numbered. I unwittingly bought the version without page numbers and haven’t been able to refer back from the author index to a page in the text. The text is a model of clear thinking and concise expression about a complex topic. The author’s conclusions have tremendous implications for the epidemics of overweight and obesity emerging in so many societies. Read, re-read and take note if you are at all interested this engaging topic.

⭐This is a landmark book that highlights the poor quality of dietary science and advice given over the last forty years by government health institutions. How did the world end up with the global epidemics of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver and other metabolic symptoms. This book details just how it happened and what can be done to reverse these epidemics. If you only read one book on this subject read this one. A masterpiece.

⭐A friend,a GP,who has a father also a GP and daughter at medical school,has written to the New Zealand medical council endorsing this approach to health and dealing with obesity.in her opinion before reading this book,she was dealing with obese patients in a totally erroneous way.Obesity issues can only be dealt with by understanding the sugar,carbohydrate,insulin cycle.

⭐A very readable, sensible explanation of how the western world has been brainwashed by politics and the food and pharmaceutical industries. Gary Taubes’ extensive research blows accepted ‘facts’ about our diet out of the water. If you value your long term health – read this book.

⭐More that I was specking, Taubes use powerful facts to support his reasoning. He answer questions that I had having in mind some months ago in my fight for stop wining weight. Thanks.

⭐I love that Gary Taubes has done such extensive research and I love this book. He is a wonderful author and fact finder. I wish more doctors would read his books.

⭐Very educational and based in sound research

⭐I should say at the start that I have a background in science (physics) and so was surprised at the lack of scientific rigour used in the field of neutrition revealed by this book.I have read Gary Taubs other book “Why we get fat” and wanted to know more about the background to the “carbohydrate hypothesis” and why dietary advice in the UK for people with high cholesterol and obesity is as it is (that is to go on a low fat high carbohydrate diet, and/or take statins).My reason for needing more information was initiated by being told by my doctor that, as a woman aged 60, I am at a raised risk of heart disease because I have high “cholesterol” and am over weight. The reason I am overweight is that I was told in 2002 I needed to go on a high fiber diet. The problem is that fiber comes with starch and so I have put a lot of weight on. So it did not make sense to me to increase the proportion of carbohydrates in my diet in order to loose weight.These two books opened my eyes to the lack of science behind the current national guidelines. Historically the subject seems to have been crippled by dogma verging on religious ideology rather than science. Having read both books I would highly recommend them as a well researched overview of the field. My Taubes does sometimes come over as having a bee in his bonnet, but considering what he has uncovered it is little surprise. Having read the history behind how national nutritional guidelines are formed I now have little confidence in them. The sad thing is that there is only scant scientific evidence to support the “carbohydrate hypothesis” of obesity. However, the evidence such as it is seems more compelling than used to support the current advice. This advice is being given to us via our overworked GPS who wonder why their patients fail to loose weight using the current advice (the latter statement is based on what my GP said to me when I indicated that I was not keen to have to swallow pills for the remainder of my life for a disease I do not have and may never have.)Maybe the people who make up these national nutritional guidelines should read these books and think more critically about the scientific validity of the advice they are providing,

⭐This is an important book with crucial information that everyone should know about. Being of a science background I had over the past 15 years known and adopted many practices that was traditional in our culture but almost rarely adopted by general supermarket dependent people today. For example I use animal fat (from grass fed animals only) in my deep fat fryer and not vegetable fat. I use butter(organic free range only) to cook with and not vegetable oil. I have been for years. Long before reading this book. I came to my own scientific conclusions many years ago with my own research from my university student days in the late 90s and this book, I was pleasantly surprised, had it all in one place. I recommend this book as it genuinely will enhance the quality of your life. I used to overeat in my post puberty high school years. I used to eat a lot of bread, and biscuits during my high school years. I turned vegetarian when I was found to have too much cholesterol during a routine checkup for joining the school cricket team. By the time I joined Uni my cholesterol was still very high despite having cut out all saturated fat from diet. I still ate sugary stuff and bread and biscuits, a lot. No doctor said bread can cause weight gain or fat deposit. By Uni since my subjects were Biochemistry and Biology I was able to gain access to research materials (before the time of internet) and I found that my high carbohydrate diet I started when I was in my final year high school was the culprit. I switched to animal protein and saturated animal fat diet based on my findings and my health improved. My cholesterol problem disappeared. I lost weight and my blood pressure was back in a healthy range. Since then I have stuck with what I found out the “hard way”.

⭐This book is very hard going, repetitive, not for the feint hearted. The style is not to the point or succinct. I had to read, and re read much of it often as the author gets lost in his desire to enlighten us. It could be much shorter if set out better and so much easier to read and understand.I agree with the content, I trained in Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics; refined carbohydrates and hidden sugar in processed foods and drinks are the cause of obesity and health issues, not fats, saturated or otherwise, tho beware transfats. The book tries to show how we are all conned, especially by the medical profession and those who should have our welfare as a priority, instead we are misled because ultimately it comes down to money – made by “big pharma”, sugar companies and producers of foodstuffs laced with sugar and other refined carbohydrate.Tuabes other book “Why We Get Fat” is much better, as is Dr Malcolm Kendricks “The Great Cholesterol Con”.

⭐This book is not for the faint-hearted. Like a defence advocate in a trial, Gary Taubes builds his case against the accepted wisdom on dieting from the very first scientific test on the efficacy of various diets way back in the 1860s.Prior to this time, diets & dieting was not considered at all as all contemporary photos will attest. All people of the period were slim with nary an ounce of fat bodies to be seen in any photos. It is only with the advent of the 1950s that the phenomena of obesity started to rear its head to become the epidemic that it is now.It is not merely weight which is a cancer but its attendant maladies such as heart attacks, diabetes & high blood pressure. In spite of all the best medicine advice, levels of morbid obesity are increasing steadily.Why did this situation arise? Lack of exercise, incorrect eating, over eating, indolence or an alien virus?Or possibly none of the above?Gary Taubes contends that it is the generally accepted medical diet that is gradually killing the world. He sets out with meticulous gusto to examine all the crucial decisions taken to arrive at the current state of affairs. The smoking gun points at certain scientists in the USA who conflated similarity with causation with the culprit being fat. The US government in its haste to apportion blame for a rising tide of heart problems appointed a Commission which without sufficient scientific advice pinned the blame on the consumption of fat. Branded as the villain, carbohydrate was identified as the knight in shining armour which would trounce the villain.But it was not to be! Rates of obesity rose & with it all its attendant maladies.The initial scientific test in the 1860s arose because an undertaker in London by the name of William Banting was, despite his best endeavors, increasing in girth. Eventually in desperation he approached his doctor, a Dr. William Harvey who, having a scientific bent, used Banting as a guinea pig. The upshot was that a fatty diet was proved to result in weight loss.As a South African, I found the findings of a doctor in Natal in the 1920s who was initially in practice in the rural Zululand where obesity, diabetes or high blood pressure was unknown. On relocating to the Addington Hospital in Durban the opposite applied. These ailments were rampant. Ultimately all that he could do was to attribute the difference to their diet.A final aspect that struck a chord with me was the nature of cholesterol where HDL & LDL are the main protagonists. Even though LDL has been cast as the villains in the cholesterol saga, this is not true. It is rather type of HDL which is more fatal. In a large measure, the existing tests are meaningless. What a revelation! This is not a book for a casual read but rather for those who have a penchant for the in-depth details of all the main players in the dieting game. Rather dip in & out of relevant sections as information is required rather than reading it like a novel from cover to cover.This book is long overdue as it studiously treads its scientific path to neutralise all the landmines strewn in its way.

⭐Extremely comprehensive and the best review of the science as a whole ever published in one book.I have been keto for nearly 2 years and am early in my career. I had been disillusioned with nutrition science untill I discovered the works of Dr Eric Westman, Dr Stephen Phinney, Dr Jeff Volek, Dr Michael Eades, Dr Jason Fung, Prof Tim Noakes, invetigative journalists like Gary Taubes and many more.This book is as essential read for any one involved in health and chronic diseases. Especially Nutritionists or Dietitians. Many prefer to bury their head in the sand and remain ignorent to the current injustice taking place in nutrition “science”. For those of you who remain ignorent who don’t wish to be this will open your eyes to the true state of affairs.whilst I am very familiar with the Carbohydrate Insulin Hypothesis from my own research, this book made me aware of much research I would never have found myself. It will likely anger you if you have struggled with your weight but it should if you have the patience to read, it send you on the right path.I have changed how I work in diabetes prevention based on the vast data in support of this hypothesis and lack of any evidence of harm. My patients now thrive and loose weight without hunger. Change for now must unfortunately come via a “bottom up” approach.Thank you Gary Taubes.

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