I just listened to an interview with Taubes. He said while he was on a 
low-fat diet, he started eating pears. He got up to five pears a day, I 
think, and gained 15 pounds in the space of six months. The weight 
dropped off when he stopped eating them.

Naomi


Todd Moody wrote:
> The emphasis that Harris places on fructose, PUFA, and wheat is not found in Taubes's book. Taubes, for his part, was indeed partly inspired by Atkins. As he explains in GCBC (have you read it?), he solved his own weight problem with the Atkins diet. As a science journalist interested in stories about how science goes wrong, he was naturally interested to learn more about why almost the entire scientific community vilified Atkins. That led to years of research and, eventually, the book. 
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