![Gary Taubes](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/qCo71oMV9uh7X7ymMJCFaDItSQ4.jpg)
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 for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), 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. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.486 |
Birthday | 1956-04-30 |
Place of Birth | Rochester, New York, USA |
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![Sugar Coated](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2pDXBqfP45hwHIT8CmYXZLJpNah.jpg)
2015
![Sugar Coated](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2pDXBqfP45hwHIT8CmYXZLJpNah.jpg)
Sugar Coated
7.3/30
The investigation and exposure of the US sugar industry’s systematic hijacking of scientific study to bury evidence that sugar is—in fact—toxic.
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![Cholesterol: The Great Bluff](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2FAt3KEKfmF31VY7clqehGomh5K.jpg)
2016
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Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
8.1/4
The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a...
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Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
![Fat Fiction](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jt1ZXNOfdutGC5QPvMjOd4VV1q5.jpg)
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Fat Fiction
6.313/16
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad...
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FAT: A Documentary
6.154/13
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![Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vn8KpktabZcpP4Z68WA3F0iw2PM.jpg)
2014
![Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vn8KpktabZcpP4Z68WA3F0iw2PM.jpg)
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
6.7/5
One in three Americans is pre-diabetic. A huge percentage of them do not know that they are sick. Adult onset diabetes is no longer an illness for the...
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![That Sugar Film](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qF1fDtJ1vU3hrLDNJCgRoQekFmM.jpg)
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That Sugar Film
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One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet o...
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![The Perfect Human Diet](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8vfN26337Z3Yn0RPBPvBF4AMZs7.jpg)
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The Perfect Human Diet
5.7/19
"The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - th...
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The Perfect Human Diet
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Fat Head
6.724/38
A comedian replies to the "Super Size Me" crowd by losing weight on a fast-food diet while demonstrating that almost everything you think you know abo...
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FAT: A Documentary 2
6.6/7
FAT: A Documentary 2 is the sequel to the international sensation that delves deeper into the lies and myths surrounding the age old question: "What s...
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