"Jackie Patti" 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.

Most people who mistake Cocoa Puffs for a heart-healthy whole grain are
not exactly gonna be the sort to work their way through a book of
research, so I'm not sure what good this book will do.


Well, those types don't do much beyond listen to 30-second sound bites
anyhow.