{"id":22768,"date":"2011-08-05T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=22768"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T17:48:57","slug":"back-by-popular-demand-gary-taubes-on-why-we-get-fat-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/08\/05\/back-by-popular-demand-gary-taubes-on-why-we-get-fat-and-what-to-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Back by Popular Demand: Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080511\/2011_08_05_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"graphics\/why_we_get_fat.jpg\" alt=\"why we get fat\" \/>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&#8217;s Heart and Vascular Institute. According to Kerry, &#8220;[o]ur study should help ally the concerns that many people have about choosing a low-carb diet instead of a low-fat one.&#8221; A study by the Brookings Institution last year found that nearly one third of American adults are obese, and another third are overweight.<br \/>\nBut after decades of the conventional wisdom on eating healthy hasn&#8217;t worked low-fat\/high-carb diets are being seriously questioned. Even the government&#8217;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&#8217;s in town for a UCLA conference called Ancestral Health. <\/p>\n<p><em>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. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Gary Taubes&#8217; blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garytaubes.com\">www.garytaubes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to our May 31, 2011 interview with Gary Taubes here: <a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21184\">http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21184 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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