Gary Taubes at Berkeley

[Daryl]

From Dr. Eades' blog:

In late November of this year Gary Taubes gave a number of talks to members of various departments at the University of California at Berkeley. One of these talks - The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care - was recorded and can be viewed by clicking here. You need Real Player to watch the video. If you don’t have it, simply Google real player or real player mac and you will find a free download of the program.

Gary’s talk expands on one of the theses in his book Good Calories, Bad Calories: the idea that obesity isn’t caused by gluttony and sloth, but by excess carbohydrate intake instead. If you haven’t read the book or if you have and you want the weight-loss section explained in greater depth, this video is for you. He’s a little more open than he was in the book about naming names and pointing the finger at people who for whatever reason can’t see the forest for the trees. The video is long - almost two hours - but well, well worth watching.

I’m going to be seeing Gary in about a week. We’ll have one of our many hour visits at a coffee house in downtown Manhattan. If anyone has a question for Gary, put in in a comment, and I’ll ask him as many as I can while I’m overdosing on caffeine.

So take a break from your Christmas shopping this weekend, kick back and watch this video. You’ll be glad you did.

Hat tip to blog reader Art D for giving me the heads up on this one.

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/2007/12/08/gary-taubes-berkeley-lecture

To see the Taubes video: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=21216

[BoBoGuy]

To see the Taubes video:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_d...webcastid=21216

Daryl, thank you for the link. It was very interesting and informative.

Bo

[Daryl]

You're welcome, Bo, glad you liked it.

[Angeline]

I recommend that anyone who is interested in the subject invest the time in the lecture. Gary is a really good lecturer and his material really crystallized my understanding of his book. He mostly addresses the case of obesity but he does go into more detail than the book.

[LC FP]

One hour 45 minutes. But a very good lecture. At the end he counted 8 "converts" in what sounded like a pretty big crowd. Not bad, considering it is Berkeley...

[Demokat]

One hour 45 minutes. But a very good lecture. At the end he counted 8 "converts" in what sounded like a pretty big crowd. Not bad, considering it is Berkeley...

UC Berkeley is one of the best state universities in this country and its graduate programs consistently rank in the top ten for most disciplines.

[time2doit]

I think the comment above "considering it's Berkeley" refers to the political climate, the pro-vegan, "anti-capitalistic, over-consumer of resources" attitudes of Berkeley, not the quality of the university or the minds that attend. I am a UC Berkeley law graduate, love Berkeley, love the Bay Area but obsolutely know that the "politically correct" stance in Berkeley is anti-meat. So I guess i would be mildly heartened by 8 people changing their minds in Berkeley. Mildly.

I watched the whole lecture. Thank you so much for posting the link. I wish I understood the science better. I wish that I could articulate the science at all!

[Angeline]

Well remember that not everyone raised their hands. I'm sure that the idea will work it's way into some minds. Especially with the lecture available to be downloaded, and thus to be seen again.