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Who has read Gary Taubes " The diet deception"?

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hanadr

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I read this book in its American edition under the title "Good Calories, Bad Calories". It's a must. Taubes spent years trawling published. peer reviewed, research on diet. He quotes every one of them. What he found out by this exercise is shocking. I hope I'm not offending Ally 5555, but Our whole notion of the Healthy Balanced Diet is based on NOTHING that would qualify as evidence.
I compare the whole thing with learning the colours of the rainbow as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. You'd fail an elementary Science exam if you got it wrong. Now look at a real rainbow and you won't find any Indigo. It just isn't there. BUT, since Newton's obsession with Alchemy wouldn't allow 6 colours(bad magic!) It was added to make the number up to 7(good Magic!)
thus we still teach children Richard Of York, Gave Battle In Vain And it's WRONG.
( depending on your point of view, It could be that blue is absent and indigo present, but they are definitely not Both There.)
 
I'm with you on 'The Diet Deception', hanadr. It's the most significant book of it's kind in a generation and an absolute must for anyone with an interest in what and how they eat. It's truly shocking to discover how flimsy the evidence for what constitutes a 'balanced diet' actually is.
It's nothing more than a hypothesis with a lot more evidence of it's shortcomings than it's success.
Your jacket's on a shoogly nail, Ally!

What did Newton say about the pot of gold, though, hanadr? That's still there, right?

All the best,

fergus
 
Hanadr i posted the same question a little while back after i bought the english version. At first i wondered whether i had wasted my money, a lot of it was technical and way over my head. But, i read on and in fact am still reading. I am now more than ever convinced that the decisions i have taken since this site and reading the book have been the right ones. Of course a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Followed closely by the "more you know the more you need to know".
To that end i am now operating on the KISS principle: Keep It Simple Stupid. i.e low carb and bin the processed stuff.

Dave P
 
fergus
I suspect that Newton was hunting for the pot of gold when the "little people" dropped that apple out of the tree :D
 
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