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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google

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What it is

Gary Taubes presents the argument of his book Why We Get Fat to Googlers in 2011. He claims the type of calories matters more than the count, challenges calories-in-calories-out thinking and criticizes the low-fat dietary consensus.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in diet and weight-loss threads as the accessible case for the carbohydrate-insulin view of obesity.

  • 6 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Please watch videos from Gary Taubes who wrote "Good Calories Bad Calories" and "Why we get fat". Here's his google talk”

    Taubes argues calorie type matters more than calorie count

    nosequel, 2012-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Learning to Eat Well and Stay Healthy”

  2. “Highly recommend you watch this amazing lecture by Garry Taubes at Google”

    Lecture with case studies on fat, obesity and diet

    TomGullen, 2013-02 · Strong recommendation · in “What Does 200 Calories Look Like?”

  3. “but you should really decide for yourself”

    Taubes talk offered as counterpoint to a flawed PDF

    simsimsalabim, 2011-12 · Recommendation · in “The Fat Trap: Our Bodies Are Fighting Against Us”

  4. “Check out this talk if you want to know more”

    Arguments for ketogenic diets backed by explanatory models

    TelmoMenezes, 2013-07 · Recommendation · in “How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how”

  5. “Here's tons of evidence and someone wondering why we've ignored that evidence for so long.”

    Presents evidence on diet science that was long ignored

    crusso, 2013-07 · Recommendation · in “How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how”

  6. “reminds me of a good talk where some googlers got a little upset when gary taubes started going into the problems with CICO thinking.”

    Taubes questions calories-in-calories-out thinking before skeptical Googlers

    allsunny, 2022-09 · Recommendation · in “Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way”

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Topics: gary taubes, low-carb, obesity, nutrition, calories

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