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Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is the author of six books, including the best sellers Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat. He is a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for Science, and his writing has appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine and in The Atlantic, Esquire, and numerous “best of” anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing. He has received three Science in Society awards from the National Association of Science Writers and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He lives in Oakland, California.


More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

Gary Taubes on the History of Diet-Based Remedies For Chronic Illness
January 26, 2024  By Gary Taubes
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