Gary Taubes Quotes

“As for women, if anything, the higher their cholesterol, the longer they lived.”

“Ignoring difficulties is a poor way of solving them.”

“The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to retain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century.”

“The salient question is whether the increasing awareness of heart disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.”

“The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.”

“There is no scientifically justifiable reason — or evidence — to assume that the obese are any more defective in character or behavior.”

“The most fattening foods are the ones that have the greatest effect on our blood sugar and insulin levels.”

“The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat – the carbohydrates.”

“The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not.”

“We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.”