Articles related to "Gary Taubes"

Writer Gary Taubes argues that exercise is not key to weight loss. The author says that it can make you actually feel hungrier and possibly even gain weight as a result.

The Diet Delusion reviews the research into obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases of the modern world - the results make uncomfortable reading.

Advice on low carb dieting is often contradictory. The Internet allows dieters to go straight to the source and keep up with scientific research on the subject.

A growing body of evidence is suggesting that the low-fat/ high-carb mania of the last several decades may be responsible a host of health problems.

A growing body of data does not substantiate that the lower your cholesterol numbers the better your health. In fact, having low cholesterol levels may cause disease.

Americans have been terrorized into the belief that cholesterol will kill them. Recent studies indicate that a lack of cholesterol is what is destructive to one's health.

Eating healthfully, maintaining an exercise regime, getting adequate amounts of sleep and thinking positively are key components to living a healthy life.

It is common health advice: avoid fat, eat carbohydrates, eat less, exercise more. Yet, diabetes and obesity epidemics coincide with Americans following this advice.

In Taking the Medicine Burch argues many medical treatments, old and new, have no evidence they work. Good intentions are undermined when bad science meets blind faith.