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Can't help but gush over this one! 
First of all the last 100+ pages are footnotes from heavy research. I can't imagine how long it took to compile all the information in this book. It is easy to read in my opinion even though the subject matter is dense and some might think boring. Taubs has a way of making it interesting and relevant.
The bottom line is that we have been fed a bunch of lies regarding what is a healthy diet. He clears this up by going through the research and trust me, you will be blown away by how much false information is out there. I think the proof is in the pudding. Low fat foods are all the craze and the American population is just getting fatter and sicker by the minute. Read this book and it will vindicate fat. You know you would rather eat more fat anyway....... It turns out that isn't as bad as we were led to believe.
Fabulous overview with no simple answer
I've read an awful lot of the prior reviewers, and it seems as if they all miss the point.
Here's the conclusion of the book:
The science on Diet isn't in yet.
The author also tends to believe in the "carbs are bad for you" position set, but this is a minor portion of the book.
The book is mostly 630 pages of explaining what we don't really know in the science, and how there are contradictory studies all over the place, and 10 pages worth of opinion at the end.
If you want to read the science, and a summary of what is and (most importantly) what is NOT known about diet, read this.
If you want a simple answer, this book doesn't have one.
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Fat
This book is great for patients and providers. Evidence shows "the more refined the carbs the more diabetes and heart disease."
Diseases of Civilization are well established. What is not generally agreed is how to educate and or regulate.
Truth in advertising lacks well behind "freedom to eat what you please."
Now that poor health due to diet is bankrupting our system perhaps those who want real change will read this book, and maybe address processed food.
As a medical provider (nurse Practitioner) I believe the case against added salt has been made.
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Absolutely worthwhile purchase. Answers many questions and is a great reference book as well
Highly recommend it.
Wish I'd have read this years ago! 
Wonderful book..... reminded me to cut out carbohydrates. Interesting to read how the medical / govt. leaders failed to present the facts about carbohydrates. Shame!
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In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugars?via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulation?and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.
Good Calories
These are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint.
Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables.
Bad Calories
These are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic disease?all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they contain, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.)
Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer.
Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then ?wrongly?were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be.
With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all.
The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories:
1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease.
2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being.
3. Sugars?sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specifically?are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.
4. Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer?s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times.
5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior.
6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller.
7. Exercise does ...
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