The case against sugar

We covered one of Taubes’s previous books, Why We Get Fat, in which he challenges the commonly accepted “calories-in, calories-out” model of weight maintenance. (And, his offices must be pretty close to another health journalist based out of UC Berkeley, Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules and In Defense of Food who says this about Taubes: “I can’t think of another journalist who has had quite as profound an influence on the conversation about nutrition.”) He’s a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Gary Taubes is an award-winning science journalist.