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Gary Taubes Quotes

born 1956 United States

Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an American journalist, writer, and low-carbohydrate / high-fat (LCHF) diet advocate.

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Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

One of the most reproducible findings in obesity research, as I’ve said, is that fat people, on average, eat no more than lean people.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

The documented failure of semi-starvation diets for the obese dates back at least half a century.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Children do not grow because they eat voraciously; rather, they eat voraciously because they are growing.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Neither eating less nor exercising more will lead to long-term weight loss, as the body naturally compensates.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

That sugar is half fructose is what fundamentally differentiates it from starches and even the whitest, most refined flour.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Evolution should be our best guide for what constitutes a healthy diet.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

In preventative medicine, benefits without risks are nonexistent.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to interpret the evidence selectively.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Because sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS-55) are both effectively half glucose and half fructose, they offer the worst of both sugars.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Rats can be easily addicted to sugar, according to Hoebel, and will demonstrate the physical symptoms of opiate withdrawal when forced to abstain.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Whatever the accepted wisdom, making obesity a behavioral issue is endlessly problematic.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

The thing is, it’s very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

It’s not so much that fat fills us up as that carbohydrates prevent satiety, and so we remain hungry.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

It’s effectively impossible to restrict calories significantly without also reducing the carbohydrates.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Conflict of interest is an accusation invariably wielded to discredit those viewpoints with which one disagrees.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

The most obvious difficulty with the notion that a retarded metabolism explains the idiosyncratic nature of fattening is that it never had any evidence to support it.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

We may forget that the science is not adequately described, or ambiguous, even if the public-health policy seems to be set in stone.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

A colleague once defined an academic discipline as a group of scholars who had agreed not to ask certain embarrassing questions about key assumptions.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Once the “truth” has been declared, even if it’s based on incomplete evidence, the overwhelming tendency is to interpret all future observations in support of that preconception.

Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gary Taubes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.