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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google
Gary Taubes presents the argument of his book Why We Get Fat to Googlers in 2011. He claims the type of calories matters more than the count, challenges calories-in-calories-out thinking and criticizes the low-fat dietary consensus.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended in diet and weight-loss threads as the accessible case for the carbohydrate-insulin view of obesity.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Talks at Google
- Topic
- obesity and diet
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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Actually you are most likely wrong. There is really good evidence that the number of calories don't matter and that the type of calories are everything. People associate the number of calories as mattering because they change other things at the same time. Please watch …
nosequel on Hacker News · 2012-01
In Learning to Eat Well and Stay Healthymsluyter correctly points to the Inuits as a good case against what you've said. Their diet consists pretty much entirely fat and meat yet they have lower heart disease and rates of cancer. [LINK] Pretty strange how their not keeling over from heart disease! Perhaps …
TomGullen on Hacker News · 2013-02
In What Does 200 Calories Look Like?The linked pdf makes a number of factual errors. it incorrectly suggests that ketogenic don't encourage eating lots of vegetables and low-sugar fruits. It also trys to twist "not all calories are the same" into "you can eat as much as you want". and of …
simsimsalabim on Hacker News · 2011-12
In The Fat Trap: Our Bodies Are Fighting Against Us
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