{"id":2134,"date":"2021-02-03T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:21:03","slug":"review-the-case-for-keto-the-truth-about-low-carb-high-fat-eating-by-gary-taubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-case-for-keto-the-truth-about-low-carb-high-fat-eating-by-gary-taubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating, by Gary Taubes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nearly twenty years ago, science journalist Gary Taubes wrote an article for the magazine section of the Sunday <em>New York Times<\/em> reporting that some eminent scientists were beginning to re-think the conventional view about why we gain weight.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His article, which I read at the time, convinced me and many others to take another long at the long-forgotten &#8220;Atkins Diet&#8221; which had a bit of a revival in the years that followed.  My experience, and that of many others, was that low-carb dieting worked amazingly well.  But most health professionals and most people disagreed, and disapproved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward twenty years and the arguments Taubes made then are now accepted by thousands of doctors, and embraced by millions of people.  In this book, a sequel of sorts to Taubes&#8217; <em>The Case Against Sugar<\/em>, he explains why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The science behind LCHF keto eating is well established.  As Taubes continues to explain, patiently, year after year, it&#8217;s not about physics.  It&#8217;s not calories in versus calories out.  That doesn&#8217;t really work, as most people who struggle to lose weight will tell you.  It&#8217;s about insulin resistance, about hormones and about how our cells accumulate fat rather than burn it off.  And the proof is, to use a really terrible metaphor in this case, in the pudding.  Low carb dieting leads to weight loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taubes writes very well, and is very convincing.  I hope many people read the book and try out what he suggests.  It really works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly twenty years ago, science journalist Gary Taubes wrote an article for the magazine section of the Sunday New York Times reporting that some eminent scientists were beginning to re-think the conventional view about why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}