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Keith Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:44:46 -0400
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:08 Kim Kline wrote:

>I totally agree.  I am not even half way through it and it is fascinating.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]
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>> On Behalf Of tmoody
>> For those who haven't already read it, I want to recommend Gary Taubes's
>> recently published book _Good Calories, Bad Calories_ (Knopf, 2007).
>> Subtitled "Challenging the conventional wisdome on diet, weight control,
>> and disease", it is, in my opinion, the most important book in this area
>> to appear in decades.

The New York Times (who published Taubes' original article) reviewed the book a fortnight 
ago. They regarded it as sloppily researched and ignoring inconvenient but well-
substantiated evidence that did not fit Taubes' thesis.

Any comments on that from those who have read it?

Keith

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