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EventsGary Taubes on what he eats for breakfast and why America is fat
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in Gary Taubes, Sugar/fructose, The obesity epidemic 
If you ever wondered what low-carb pioneer and author Gary Taubes eats in a typical day, or pondered about the whys of the obesity epidemic, then you should read this article:
GQ: Gary Taubes, the Man Who Knows Why America Is Fat‘
Once you’re insulin resistant — metabolically disturbed, as the paleo/LCHF folks like to say — you’re secreting more insulin to handle the carbohydrates you’re consuming, and you’re gaining fat, heading toward becoming diabetic. The question then is what do you have to do to solve that problem. For most people, just removing the sugar is not enough. You need to remove all the easily digestible carbs, which means pretty much all those except the carbs in green vegetables.
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“I Used to Blame Fat People. Now I Blame Obesity on Sugar Industry Propaganda”
And then reports Taub's typical daily meals of eggs and bacon for breakfast, fish and salad for lunch, meat and vegetables for dinner and the occasional bit of pumpernickel bread (cause it's low GI and Taub knows that he can eat it without gaining weight with his metabolic system). I obviously know very different 60 year old fathers of two!!!
It is so frustrating how the key messages of the piece are undermined by a crappy introduction!!
and gone back to eating as I did when I was a boy and young man in the 1950's and 1960's. Home cooked food, no sugar, no soda,
coffee black, fresh vegetables, meat with fat, bacon and eggs and whole fruit. No processed food.
My fat began melting off.
I read his book and then his books, and those of Dr. Robert Lustig and Nina Teicholz
Our present recommended American diet is geared to reducing us to consumption units who
will just want to consume more. Free yourself. Read or watch Taubes, Lustig, Teicholz.
Because of the portion sizes we end up with a Snicker's bar being at 55 on the scale whereas a parsnip is 97. We can argue that a Snicker's bar isn't healthier than a parsnip. But less of a Snicker's bar is needed to make up 50g.
The real issue that applies to people trying to maintain low carb high fat diets is that the glycemic index is no indication of insulin response. We don't need to care about a high or low potential blood sugar response for 50g of an item, we need to worry about how much insulin release it will trigger and for how long.
There is a Food Insulin Index available, that along with nutrient density of a food might better indicate a healthier choice. But, it is fairly simple to know what foods not to eat in general for keto or LCHF lifestyles. Starchy vegetables and tubers, baked goods, grains, legumes, sugar, many fruits, are all not part of most LC lifestyles due to high carbohydrate counts.