Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It and Good Calories, Bad Calories (The Diet Delusion in the UK). Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).
Books Gary Taubes has authored
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Why We Get Fat
by Gary Taubes • December 27, 2011 • Crafts, Hobbies & Home
What’s making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fres...
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The Case Against Sugar
by Gary Taubes • December 27, 2016 • Business & Money
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar ...
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
by Gary Taubes • September 28, 2008 • Cookbooks, Food & Wine
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating le...
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