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LDL, Saturated Fat, and Heart Disease: Should We Worry?
A tale of two competing paradigms and why I hope my diet isn't killing me.
 • Gary Taubes
Which comes first, Pathological Hunger or Obesity?
What Prader Willi Syndrome and a carnivore diet tell us about the potential dangers of assuming that all diets work by reducing how much we eat.
 • Gary Taubes
If Most Research Publications are Just Wrong, is that a Disaster?
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya thinks so, but is he right?
 • Gary Taubes
RFK Jr Gives the NY Times Reason to Write About Keto and Schizophrenia. Good News?
Not initially, but sometimes even bad press can become good (enough) press.
 • Gary Taubes
More Tales from Carnivore History: the All-Meat Diet and Diabetes
We know a well-formulated ketogenic diet can put type 2 diabetes into remission. Can carnivore cure it?
 • Gary Taubes
MAHA's New Dietary Guidelines, Pluribus, and the "Moonie Steve" Thought Experiment
The new guidelines do more than just put animal products at the top, they represent a shift in nutritional paradigms. What took so long?
 • Gary Taubes
What's It Mean to Overeat? Lessons From a (Very) Fat Mouse & the Once "Not-Thin Peter" Attia.
Does the ob/ob mouse have anything in common with the influential longevity doctor, Peter Attia? If Dr. Attia's experience is any indication, the answer…
 • Gary Taubes
Uncertainty Principles
Uncertainty Principles
When what we don’t know is more important than what we do. Wrestling with conflict and controversy in science, medicine, health and nutrition.
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