Gary Taubes did the world a favor by responding to "The Fat Trap" - linked in this link - and then going a step farther. He responded with a letter to the editor which he had signed by as many willing MDs and PHDs as he could get on short notice. The letter's point was - if Ms. Pope is correct that all of the "eat less move more" advocates are ready to throw in the towel and admit that it's impossible to lose weight over time, perhaps that's because they are using the wrong prescription. Thus, there's a good reason to invest in the alternative hypothesis - carbs drive insulin which drives fat - as the primary reason why we Westerners are getting fatter, and sicker, and more expensive to keep alive, even as we work out more, diet more, and obsess more about our diabetes and the resulting cascade of diseases of civilization.
Here you can find additional thoughts from GT's new comrade in arms, Peter Attia.
They also created the Ancestral Health Registry for those who have lost weight via a low carb/paleo diet to log their experience.
The Fat Trap is a good read. It fully represents to cognitive dissonance inherent in the last 30-60 years of the science of diet, in which the wisdom and science of the pre-WWII leaders in the field - that carbs are uniquely fattening - was dumped. Remarkably, an unproved, and still unproven, scientific model was inserted and became the accepted scientific template for diet and health science. That model is an imprecisely applied interpretation of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics to human metabolism, which does not account for the fact that the human body is not a closed system. It also does not account for the fact that in a living being, energy in and energy out transactions are dependent variables - in other words, each affects the other.
Once the absurdities of "a calorie is a calorie" are seen, it becomes nearly astonishing that anyone ever fell for a plate full of such unproved (and improbable) scientific reductionism.
Here you can find additional thoughts from GT's new comrade in arms, Peter Attia.
They also created the Ancestral Health Registry for those who have lost weight via a low carb/paleo diet to log their experience.
The Fat Trap is a good read. It fully represents to cognitive dissonance inherent in the last 30-60 years of the science of diet, in which the wisdom and science of the pre-WWII leaders in the field - that carbs are uniquely fattening - was dumped. Remarkably, an unproved, and still unproven, scientific model was inserted and became the accepted scientific template for diet and health science. That model is an imprecisely applied interpretation of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics to human metabolism, which does not account for the fact that the human body is not a closed system. It also does not account for the fact that in a living being, energy in and energy out transactions are dependent variables - in other words, each affects the other.
Once the absurdities of "a calorie is a calorie" are seen, it becomes nearly astonishing that anyone ever fell for a plate full of such unproved (and improbable) scientific reductionism.
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