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Rethinking Diabetes
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Gary Taubes
25 books771 followersGary Taubes is an American science writer. He is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), titled The Diet Delusion (2008) in the UK and Australia. His book Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It was released in December 2010. In December 2010 Taubes launched a blog at GaryTaubes.com to promote the book's release and to respond to critics. His main hypothesis is based on: Carbohydrates generate insulin, which causes the body to store fat.
Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard University (BS, 1977) and aerospace engineering at Stanford University (MS, 1978). After receiving a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981, Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982. Since then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines. Originally focusing on physics issues, his interests have more recently turned to medicine and nutrition.
Taubes's books have all dealt with scientific controversies. Nobel Dreams takes a critical look at the politics and experimental techniques behind the Nobel Prize-winning work of physicist Carlo Rubbia. Bad Science is a chronicle of the short-lived media frenzy surrounding the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiments of 1989. [wikipedia]
Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard University (BS, 1977) and aerospace engineering at Stanford University (MS, 1978). After receiving a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in 1981, Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982. Since then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines. Originally focusing on physics issues, his interests have more recently turned to medicine and nutrition.
Taubes's books have all dealt with scientific controversies. Nobel Dreams takes a critical look at the politics and experimental techniques behind the Nobel Prize-winning work of physicist Carlo Rubbia. Bad Science is a chronicle of the short-lived media frenzy surrounding the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiments of 1989. [wikipedia]
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July 2, 2025
An excellent, science-heavy read on the history of diabetes, what we know about it, and how we treat it. A definite must-read for anyone with diabetes or glucose intolerance.
February 11, 2024
Gary is a first class writer as well as being meticulously well researched and referenced.
The only thing I didn’t like about this book is that it lumped together, both type one and type two diabetes, which from selfish perspective meant only half of it was of interest in relevance to me, and it was quite difficult to separate the two types as they were dealt with together in each chapter.
The only thing I didn’t like about this book is that it lumped together, both type one and type two diabetes, which from selfish perspective meant only half of it was of interest in relevance to me, and it was quite difficult to separate the two types as they were dealt with together in each chapter.
February 26, 2025
The book itself is good, and the content seems promising, but I ran into a problem—by page 52, I noticed that 100 pages were missing, and several pages were printed out of order. Buyer beware, the printing quality is subpar.
July 4, 2025
Too detailed
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