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Article: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health.(Book review)
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- Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health, by Gary Taubes, paperback, 609 pp, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-4000-3346-1, New York, N.Y, Anchor Books, 2007.
"The literature on obesity is not only voluminous, it is also full of conflicting and confusing reports and opinions. One might well apply to it the words of Artemus Ward: 'The researches of so many eminent scientific men have thrown so much darkness upon the subject that if they continue their researches we shall soon know nothing. "'
--Hilde Bruch, The Importance of Overweight, 1957
"It is incredible that in twentieth-century America a conscientious ...