Wear Bear is right, I forget that I re-considered low carb diets in 2010 after reading Good Calories, Bad Calories and within a few months was a patient of Dr Westman's, a half hour away at Duke, with support from my GP and oncologist. VLC works well, best place to start, great for T1s, but when that doesn’t reverse diabetes for some, we are left looking at new theories.

Taubes wrote that this book, like GCBC, is targeted to physicians and dietitians. If he wanted to help diabetics, it should have at least been shorter than the Why We Get Fat length, with a simple diet.