“Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. As I was told by a professor of nutrition at New York University after on of my lectures, the kind of change I'm advocating could take a lifetime to be accepted.” GovernmentScienceIllnessObesityDietCaloriesPublic HealthDietingConfirmation BiasBad Science Book:Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It Source: Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
“...Why is it, that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, that the only disorder you will ever diagnosis with a physics book - is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The law of thermodynamics is always true, [but] the energy balance equation is irrelevant...” ScienceEnergyDoctorsPhysicsBiologyObesityDoctorPhysiologyMedical SchoolThermodynamicsMedical ResearchObesity EpidemicBad ScienceEndocrinology Author:Gary Taubes
“[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.” ScienceFoodHealthDietHeart Disease Book:Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease Source: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
“There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth.” PeopleNeedsScienceMotivationIndividualCommunityCreativityEnvironmentRiskTheoryFitProveCreatingConstantDrivenAriseInsufficientCreating SomethingSyncPsych Author:Gary Taubes
