"Alice Faber" wrote in message
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Roger Zoul wrote:
"Jackie Patti" wrote in message
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My understanding is that Taubes book is primarily a review of the
stuff
we've known for a long time about carb, fat, insulin and glucagon; it
sounds like it's primarily just a typical explanation of low-carb,
though much more well-organized than most. No one posting about it
has
said anything unfamiliar or new yet. But I'm not into it very far
yet,
so don't know if there will be more useful info or not.

I think his book is more about how we've come to this point of
understanding...with "researchers" having tunnel vision and all...not
seeing (or trying to see) the full picture and blindly slaving (or
getting rich) at finding prove for what they want to believe.
Well, at least in the first chapter....

I'm not yet sure if there's anything actually *new* or even relatively
recent.

Maybe, the mainstream hasn't "got" the whole carb thing just yet, but
the
relationship of sugar and insulin was well-established back when I was
in
college a couple decades ago. And it goes back even further - farmers
have known to feed lots of corn to fatten pigs for one heck of a long
time.

It seems Taubes is largely preaching to the choir; selling a book to
low-carbers to justify why they do what they do. Is anyone besides us
reading this thing?


Well, that's going to be extremely hard for us here {LCers} to know.
However, I'd guess that since he has had some press that he might get
some
non-LCers to read his book. Jim posted a "response" that some low-fat guy
wrote almost the day Taubes' book hit the stands.

There was a really nasty response in my local paper this morning, by a
Yale Medical School "expert" on obesity (an MD, no less). It really
amounted to him saying that he didn't *like* the book, because it
contradicted everything he'd been recommending, both to patients and in
popular columns.

See...this is good...when folks read this...they might read the book, so
they can ask their doc what's up. Of course, s/he'll say Taubes is an
idiot...most people think their doctor walks on water if they like
h/im/er....