Why We Get Fat

Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It is a 2010 book by science writer Gary Taubes. Following Taubes’s 2007 book Good Calories, Bad Calories, in which he argues that the modern diet’s inclusion of too many refined carbohydrates is a primary contributor to the obesity epidemic, he elaborates in Why We Get Fat on how people can change their diets.

Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It
AuthorGary Taubes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectObesity
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
December 2010
Media typeHardcover
Pages272
ISBN978-0-307-27270-6
613.712
Preceded byGood Calories, Bad Calories 

Harvard pulmonologist Dennis Rosen reviewed Why We Get Fat in a positive light, calling it a “well-researched and thoughtful book.”[1] In The New York Times, Abigail Zugar characterizes Why We Get Fat as “a sort of CliffsNotes version” of Taubes’s Good Calories, Bad Calories, resulting in a “particularly intriguing and readable synthesis.”[2]

References

  1. Rosen, Dennis. “Weighing in on the causes of obesity.” The Boston Herald. Accessed January 10, 2011.
  2. Zugar, Abigail. “A Diet Manifesto: Drop the Apple and Walk Away.” The New York Times. Accessed January 10, 2011.
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