Gary Taubes makes a second appearance on the Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast with Vinnie Tortorich.
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GARY TAUBES & HIS MUST-READS
- Why We Get Fat: And What to do About It
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
- Diet Delusion
- Gary is a reporter/journalist (NY Times) and a controversial guy, has done one of the best interviews in this podcast’s history
- Writing another book currently — so is Vinnie!
- Went to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia
- Ivy League education definitely affected him
VINNIE’S READING
- Reads incredibly slowly but comprehends way more than the average person
- Scientific brain — he doesn’t assume, he knows
- Ended up allowing him to not pay attention in class, just read the books
NUTRITION WRITING
- He was doing nutritional pieces for science sections
- He looked at evidence and saw whether or not it really was supported
- Gary wrote a controversial article calling out the nutrition world for saying low fat was bad
- Initially was researching what caused the obesity epidemic?
- Two hypotheses: high fructose corn syrup, shift to low fat diets
- LOW FAT DIETS ended up being the issue, clear in his research
- Two hypotheses: high fructose corn syrup, shift to low fat diets
- Even in the 60’s, people weren’t fat
- In the early 1900s, only ~1/20 people were obese
- Only 2 Obese kids in Gary’s middle school
- 60’s : baked potato was fattening ; 80’s: baked potato was a heart healthy food
- At first, people didn’t realize that high fructose corn syrup was sugar
- When heart health came into question, fat became (incorrectly) bad, and carbs/sugar became (incorrectly) passable
WHY WE GET FAT
- The general idea is calorie in / calorie out and thermodynamics
- Just like you can’t think of wealth/poverty in terms of money intake vs money spent, you can’t think of calories that way either
- We secrete insulin in response to our carbohydrate intake
