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EventsGary Taubes: the man who hated carbs before it was cool
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in Gary Taubes, Sugar/fructose, Weight loss 
How come we started to believe that fat was the enemy – and ended up consuming a ridiculous amount of sugar instead? And why did calories get the blame?
There’s probably nobody who can answer these questions better than Gary Taubes, who has dug deep into the topic. Check out the article below for the full story.
Obesity is one of these subjects where it helps to have a weight problem. The way I describe it in my lecture is a male obstetrician can deliver 10,000 babies and won’t understand childbirth as well as one woman who has given birth. It’s just a fact of life. If you don’t understand what it’s like to get fatter and fatter, year in and year out, regardless of what you do, you just don’t understand obesity.
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Although I have lost 75 pounds, my main focus is health, so lowering insulin is itself a worthy goal (diabetes, heart, stroke, etc. )
I don't know if it was purposely edited to sound confusing, but it was sure lengthy and not clear, it had the feeling of most health and diet articles, to the regular person
Look at these lines
Describe the "Western diet." Is it processed foods?
Pizza Rolls, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Coca-Cola—
This made everything sound as though its McDonalds and fast foods fault for modern disease
Then in bold print
"Are we seeing less heart disease because we're preventing it with changes in diet? There's no evidence of that."
The Atkins Diet came out on top in a Stanford Study of comparing diets
a lot of bias in the questions, more like a PR article to confuse the masses, at least people will know who Gary is, this I liked
Bad article
FYI, Gary Taubes is not the first person, not even close, to eschew sugar. There were many innovators in the 1960/70 that warned the public about the detrimental affects of simple-sugar. Don't worry about carbs, your body needs glucose (when patients in hospitals need nutrients to keep them alive they're IV'ed to a bag containing sugar not a bag of fat nor protein). Just know the difference between pastries, muffins, & chips vs. sprouted-whole-grain bread/pasta, brown rice, and potatoes (the former being bad, the latter being good).
Start by cutting out breakfast, than try cutting out lunch a couple of times a week (that is try OMAD one or two days a week).
Exercise is good for your muscles; eating like your ancestors (2 meals a day at the very most) is good for your waistline.