Aug 05 2011
Back by Popular Demand: Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It
A study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine on the effects of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet on heart health confirmed the increasingly popular notion that dietary fat intake does not increase the risk of heart disease. The study was conducted on 46 people trying to lose weight. They were split into two groups, one on a conventional low-fat diet, the other on a low-carb, high-fat diet. The 23 participants in the latter group dropped an average of 10 lbs in 45 days, and showed no changes in key measures of vascular health. The lead investigator of the study, Kerry Stewart, is a professor of medicine and director of Clinical Research and Exercise Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and it’s Heart and Vascular Institute. According to Kerry, “[o]ur study should help ally the concerns that many people have about choosing a low-carb diet instead of a low-fat one.” A study by the Brookings Institution last year found that nearly one third of American adults are obese, and another third are overweight.
But after decades of the conventional wisdom on eating healthy hasn’t worked low-fat/high-carb diets are being seriously questioned. Even the government’s own recommendations on daily food intake has been adjusted to include less grains and sugary drinks. Earlier this year, an interview we did with health journalist Gary Taubes on his book Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It, dug deep into the science of what makes people obese. That interview was rated highest by our online listeners and today we bring back Gary Taubes for a follow-up interview, while he’s in town for a UCLA conference called Ancestral Health.
GUEST: Gary Taubes is an award winning science journalist, contributing correspondent for Science Magazine, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. His earlier, highly acclaimed book is Good Calories, Bad Calories.
Read Gary Taubes’ blog at www.garytaubes.com.
Listen to our May 31, 2011 interview with Gary Taubes here: http://uprisingradio.org/home/?p=21184
12 Responses to “Back by Popular Demand: Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It”
when a human eats meat your colon is very long like that of a cow and when meat gets stuck
in the colon due to eating white refined bread which turns into GLUTEN which acts like glue and glues the
meat to the walls of the colon and the meat turns into hydrochloric acid and then turns into a tumor or cancer .
I know this due to the fact I read tumor registry charts all day long for 7 years at Kaiser . Just to add a little personal note I lost my father to colon cancer in 2009 and one of my best friends I grew up with all in the same year to colon cancer, both were avid meat eaters . I find this program to be misinformation.
The FDA listed meat as only having only 27 to 29 percent of protein while dark green veggies have 40 to 47 percent protein .
If your a meat eater and only have one bowl movements a day your on your way to colon cancer. When actor John Wayne died his colon had 20 pounds of rotting meat in it eating away at his colon . I find this program to be very irresponsible on your part , just like the fact you never had Nat Lewis from Caltech on your show and you are at Caltech ????? On global warming back in 2004 when I emailed you his information on global warming . Other than that your show is ok.
G Campbell
Maybe you should have GARY NOLL on your show 🙂
G.Campbell, you have written the STUPIDEST comment I ever saw..you cannot back up one thing you said with actual facts. You have to be one of the moronic vegans with an IQ less than your shoe size.
Sonny-
Thank you, good sir! I am grateful you took the time to say that. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
Mr. Campbell, how do you propose that our evolutionary ancestors subsisted on a diet without meat? Does it really seem likely that our intelligence naturally evolved to hunt dandelion greens?
Finally, back the hell off of the Duke. That little tidbit about the contents of his GI tract has been soundly falsified; even in the seedy parts of the web you frequent.
GC –
What you said is not true but if it were, notice that you said:
“when a human eats meat your colon is very long like that of a cow and when meat gets stuck in the colon due to eating white refined bread which turns into GLUTEN which acts like glue and glues the meat to the walls of the colon and the meat turns into hydrochloric acid and then turns into a tumor or cancer.”
You’re making a perfect case not to eat the bread, not the meat.
As for vegetable proteins, they do not contain all of the essential amino acids in the proper proportions as meat does and you’d need to nearly eat your weight in them to get an equal amount of protein.
Q: Why don’t dolphins, tigers, lions, bears, chimps, crocodiles, and all other meat eating animals get colon cancer? Answer: They don’t eat toast.
Thank you so much for having Gary back on your show, Sonali! I did not know you were an ex-vegetarian and would love to hear more about that. Have you considered having Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth, on Uprising?
Peace,
Paleosister
Thanks for the Gary Taubes interview! I read his book Why We Get Fat in March 2011, just out of intellectual curiosity, not because I had much hope of losing weight. Before I had even finished it, I was cutting carbs and dropping pounds. Now five months later, I have lost 40 pounds and plan to lose another 25 or so. I’ve never felt better. Since reading Why We Get Fat, I’ve many read lots of other low-carb books and articles (including other works by Taubes), and listen to many podcasts, too, because I believe that knowledge is power. When it comes to information on diet and nutrition, the American people have been poorly served by their government and the mass media. Web sites like this help reduce the dietary misinformation.
I wonder how G. Edward Campbell explains how those populations eating a traditional diet (no flour or sugar) had NO cancer? And the minute they started eating the “white man’s dietary,” in came cancer and all the other diseases of civilization? (Metabolic Syndrome)
Taubes discusses how the British doctors located all over the world (back in the day when the sun never set on the British empire) were amazed at finding NO CANCER in the native populations UNTIL they started eating — you guessed it — flour, molasses, sugar…brought in by the traders — and they traded in it because it could be transported all over the world in ships and doesnt’ ROT.
Albert Schweitzer had the same experience. No cancer for decades till the white man’s food of commerce came. Then it all started, beginning with dental caries.
Can you imagine what sugar does to us, when you consider what it does to TOOTH ENAMEL? Tho it takes 18-22 years to do its evil.
Our bodies are ROTTABLE — hence we must eat what itself can ROT for it to be compatible with our bodies. That’s how I have come to look at it. Flour and sugar are DEAD food.
I followed Taubes’ knowledge (after reading GCBC cover to cover). Age 55, lost 20 lbs without exercise in 4 mos, my husband lost 25 (also no exercise). We’ve kept it off. We’re scared of sugar, like the researchers at the end of Taubes’ “Is Sugar Toxic” article!
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