Okay, I'll admit (don't lose respect for me), I've stopped reading Gary Taubes's "Good Calories, Bad Calories". While it was a very impressive body of work, it was also very dense, hard to sift through, and just too darn scientific and data-based. That stuff is important to me, but I already accept the premise...I kept waiting for Taubes to give advice. And I waited...and waited... However, this girl's got a Plan B. I picked up Taubes's "Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It", a recently-published text that I suspect he put out in response to readers like myself who just wanted a super-duper condensed version of GCBC and more tips and advice. Thirty pages in, my expectation is met so far. Taubes has summarized rather handily the tomes of research that exist regarding obesity, etc...both positive and negative outcomes. Early on, it's clear that science, public health, government have made mistakes...ones they seem reluctant to...
"People who love to eat are always the best people." - Julia Child