Today is the very first Book Review Podcast and I am happy to have the honor of first go to Gary Taubes and his book titled Good Calories Bad Calories.
This book has changed the landscape of nutrition and it’s about time!
Many have struggled to speak and it has taken a long time but now, I believe the time is ripe and the information will be not only heard but understood. Mahalo Gary Taubes for all you have done.
Below is the player with the podcast!
Join me in the future as I journey through (as stated by Random House) the 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories. I’ll post on each one individually so check back or subscribe by RSS or Email.
They are as follows:
1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. (click here to read)
2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being.(click here to read)
3. Sugars—sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specifically—are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.
4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times.
5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior.
6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller.
7. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry.
8. We get fat because of an imbalance—a disequilibrium—in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance.
9. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel.
10. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.
11. The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be.
Click the link below to see Gary Taubes :
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Please join in and leave me your comments for discussion…a hearty discussion!
Be well and much Aloha!
Behavioral Health Hawaii
Gina,
I picked up Good Calories, Bad Calories based on your recommendation, but was stunned to discover how long it is!
This podcast series will be enormously helpful for people like me, who want to get through the gist of the book as soon as possible, then go through the elaborate explanations in the book later on (I still consider myself a layman when it comes to nutrition, so it’s important for me to get the right info to apply first before digging through the details).
Thank you very much for this wonderful resource, and I look forward to listening to the rest of the series!
Yes Haider you are right it is a hefty one, the paperback has 607 pages!
Happy to see the 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories podcast discussions will be helpful for you. The first one will be out on Wednesday.
Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to more comments from you as we move through the critical conclusions.
Aloha~* Gina
Gary Taubes is currently working on a much shorter version of that book for the mainstream market. He actually had to delete some 200 pages from the original manuscript of Good Calories, Bad Calories before getting it published – the publisher made him do it.. He had to aim the book at the medical profession and for that reason he had to be pretty detailed about everything, including references & citations. An easier book to read that covers similar territory that I recommend would be the following: Barry Groves, Trick and Treat: How “Healthy Eating” is Making Us ill, Hammersmith Press, 2008. The paperback copy has 428 pages before you get to the references.
Aloha Dominic!
Mahalo for stopping by and for your wonderful thoughts. We are all waiting for Gary’s new book and I am sure many will find a new way of life in it. Appreciate the Grove’s book suggestion!
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This is a wonderful post and may be one to be followed up to see what are the results
A friend e mailed this link the other day and I’m desperately anticipating your next write. Proceed on the top notch work.