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Passionately argued and deeply researched, Rethinking Diabetes reimagines diabetes care with diet at its centre, and is hugely persuasive in its questioning of the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

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 despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number.

Eat less, lose more: a mantra few of us would disagree with and one we’ve heard countless times in official health advice. And yet doctors treating diabetes and obesity are experiencing extraordinary results among patients by taking a different approach - not by counting calories, but by eating a low-carb, high-fat diet. Setting out the case for this ‘ketogenic’ approach to eating, Gary Taubes analyses the bad science behind the nutritional dogma that has brought us to a diabetes and obesity crisis. 

Building upon this critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Taubes now revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change—in this exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes’s crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience.

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever. Obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical, society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup.

Paleo diet is the most natural way of eating that has been successfully used by us and our ancestors for thousands of years. If you want to be toned and lean as quickly as possible without weird dieting, “good genetics”, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on pills and powders...regardless of your age...then you want to listen to this audiobook.  

Pourquoi on grossit : La science et la logique affrontent les mythes sur l'obésité dans le bestseller #1 du New York Times. Pourquoi grossit-on? Excellente question ! Ayant la nutrition comme centre d'interêt, le célèbre journaliste scientifique américain, Gary Taubes, était préoccupé par l'épidémie d'obésité aux États-Unis, cela l'encouragea à diriger sa propre enquête historique et scientifique, libre de tout stéréotype.