Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It | Gary Taubes | Talks at Google

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TomGullen · 2013-02 · Strong recommendation

msluyter 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 the traditional view of fat is wrong. Highly recommend you watch this amazing lecture by Garry Taubes at Google: [VIDEO] He also brings a lot of other eye opening case studies to light such as obesity in Pima Indians during a famine.

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nosequel · 2012-01 · Strong recommendation

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 videos from Gary Taubes who wrote "Good Calories Bad Calories" and "Why we get fat". Here's his google talk: [VIDEO] On a personal note, I lost 40 lbs and I eat far more calories now than I did before. Open you mind for a bit and really watch that video, you might be convinced that what you think about calories are all wrong. I certainly changed what I thought was true as fact.

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allsunny · 2022-09 · Recommendation

i get the joke but reminds me of a good talk where some googlers got a little upset when gary taubes started going into the problems with CICO thinking. [VIDEO]

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