Is Gary Taubes Vindicated?
Gary Taubes, one of the true pioneers of LCHF and best-selling author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, was publically ridiculed in 2002 for writing that obesity isn’t about a caloric imbalance, and that fat is not dangerous.
Fourteen years later, Taubes is still somewhat of a heretic. However, slowly but surely, at least some of his ideas are entering the mainstream. Has Taubes even become vindicated? Here’s a new and interesting article on the topic by the man himself, about his experiences:
The Vindicated: ‘Nutrition Heretic’ Gary Taubes on the Long Road Back From a Big, Fat Public Shaming
To insist that obesity is caused by consuming too many calories is as inane as it would be to say that poverty, for instance, is caused by earning too little money. It confuses a description with an explanation and is [a] profoundly inexcusable error.
– Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes wrote: "to insist that obesity is caused by consuming too many calories is as inane as it would be to say that poverty, for instance, is caused by earning too little money"
He is not comparing obesity anf poverty....he is comparing 2 statements that, in his view are both senseless. He could have say : flood is caused by having too much water around.......obvious but does not do much to prove the cause.
Also, one point that only a few commentators have mentioned is that the first and second laws of Thermodynamics relate to an 'isolated' or closed system. The calorie measurement was created to measure the difference in performance of coal, wood or charcoal in their ability to raise the temperature of water in a boiler. This was in 1824. It wasn't applied to food till just before turn of the century, by an American, and it was never a good fit from the outset. If you've ever seen a diagram of how many functions there are in the human body it is far from 'isolated'
Eating the wrong things breaks the system. We are not computers working on simple equations.
THANKS GARY!!!