Gary Taubes: Calories, fat or carbohydrates? (new blog entry) : LC Research/Media Forum : Active Low-Carber Forums

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Mon, Dec-13-10, 13:34

gwynne2

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Gary Taubes: Calories, fat or carbohydrates? (new blog entry)

http://www.garytaubes.com/2010/12/c...-carbohydrates/

<3 Gary but he's not getting any more succinct.

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Mon, Dec-13-10, 15:01

bkloots

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Thank you for pointing me to this blog! It appears to be quite new. I'll be standing in line to buy Taubes's new book, even if it's just a digest of GCBC.

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Mon, Dec-13-10, 15:21

M Levac

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Quote:

Originally Posted by gwynne2

<3 Gary but he's not getting any more succinct.

You noticed too? Hehe.

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Mon, Dec-13-10, 15:45

Nancy LC

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His point is interesting. Low fat diets aren't just low fat diets, they're also calorie restricted. Cutting calories from a low fat diet means you have to cut carbohydrates, because there just aren't enough fat calories to cut. Therefore, any improvement from a low fat diet you have to ask yourself whether it's because you removed a little fat or a lot of carbohydrates.

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Mon, Dec-13-10, 16:58

WereBear

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I found that post very thought provoking.

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Mon, Dec-13-10, 18:20

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I lost weight on an ad libitum low-fat diet when I was 17-18 (almost 15 years ago), but I gave up because I craved fat all the time. Just saying.

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Tue, Dec-14-10, 12:32

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In addition to the blog Taubes is writing, he's in on a website venture called Innovative Metabolic Solutions (Jimmy Moore mentioned it on one of his Living La Vida Lowcarb blogs).

https://www.myimsonline.com/