1703: Gary Taubes Makes the CASE FOR KETO And How Far Low-Carb Diets Have Come

On Episode 1703 of the LLVLC Show, Gary Taubes returns to talk about his new book The Case For Keto. “Because the epidemic is obesity and diabetes we just blame the food industry and the people who eat the food.”  - Gary Taubes Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism.  In this interview, Jimmy chats with one of the OG’s of the low-carb movement named Gary Taubes. Gary made a big splash on the nutritional health scene when he wrote a New York Times Magazine article in 2002 entitled “What If It’s All Been A Big Fat Lie” (read here​). That led to the publication of his bestselling books GOOD CALORIES BAD CALORIES, WHY WE GET FAT, and THE CASE AGAINST SUGAR. Gary is back in 2021 with THE CASE FOR KETO which lays out the mountain of evidence supporting the ketogenic diet. Jimmy and Gary reflect on how far the message of nutritional ketosis has come in the past two decades they have been a part of promoting it! TUNE IN for this epic episode. Get THE CASE FOR KETO book Follow Gary on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garytaubes