Obesity Paper Has Diet Researchers Riled Up

Last month, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ( AJCN) published a perspective piece that stirred up tensions in the worlds of epidemiology, physiology, and nutrition. Doctors and researchers argued on Twitter; commenters defended and derided related opinion pieces, and lay audiences read headlines such as, “Overeating isn’t the primary cause of obesity” and “Study finds primary cause of current obesity epidemic.”

The GOLO Program: Science-Based or Typical Fad Diet? –

I was recently contacted by a major outlet to give an interview about the GOLO program. Surprisingly, I had never heard of it, so I looked this plan up to see what it was all about. Eh. Sometimes, I wish I could get the time I spend reading about these diets, back.

Gary Taubes and the Case Against Sugar | Science-Based Medicine

Gary Taubes is a journalist on a crusade. In two earlier books, Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, he marshaled masses of evidence to support his thesis that the calories in/calories out model is wrong, that carbohydrates are the cause of obesity and most of the “diseases of civilization,” and that simply restricting carbohydrates will result in weight loss regardless of the total number of calories ingested.