> 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.
>>
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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

I haven't read the NYT review, so I can't comment on the particulars, but
"sloppily researched" doesn't fit at all.  If Taubes does what he accuses
others of having done for decades, i.e., ignore evidence that doesn't fit
his preconceptions, then that wouldn't be sloppiness; it would be
strategic deception.  I imagine the NYT reviewer mentions the inconvenient
evidence that Taubes ignores, so I guess the next thing would be to check
it out for myself.  It's also very possible that the NYT will offer Taubes
an opportunity to respond to the review.

I can't remember when I've seen a book for the general public as
thoroughly researched as this one.

Todd Moody
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