#241: Why We Get Fat and How to Actually Lose Weight with Gary Taubes
Why We Get Fat and How to Actually Lose Weight with Gary Taubes | This episode is brought to you by Vivobarefoot and InsideTracker.\n\nFor decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes.\n\xa0\nToday on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru talks to Gary Taubes, an award-winning science and health journalist, and co-founder and director of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). He is the author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, and, most recently, The Case for Keto.\xa0\n\xa0\nGary is a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for Science. He has written three cover articles on nutrition and health for The New York Times Magazine, and his writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, and numerous "best of" anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers, and is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.\n\xa0\nIn this episode, we dive into:\xa0\n-The real cause of weight gain and obesity (7:53)\n-The missing piece when it comes to obesity research (8:55)\xa0\n-Why people who fatten easily can get fat eating exactly as lean healthy people do (14:39)\xa0\n-Why the obesity and diabetes epidemics continue to get worse (19:33)\xa0\n-The safety of a low-carb, high-fat diet (29:09)\n-Why obesity is not a calories in, calories out problem (42:44)\n-The carbohydrate-insulin model and obesity (47:26)\xa0\n-Foods that cause hormonal imbalances and cause our body to store excess fat (53:29)\n-Why carbohydrate abstinence needs to be approached the same way we approach other addictions (1:02:01)\n-The connection between insulin resistance and chronic disease (1:07:48)\n\xa0\nAlso mentioned in this episode:\n-The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic -\xa0https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqab270/6369073\n\n-How a \u2018Fatally, Tragically Flawed\u2019 Paradigm has Derailed the Science of Obesity -\xa0\nhttps://www.statnews.com/2021/09/13/how-a-fatally-tragically-flawed-paradigm-has-derailed-the-science-of-obesity/\n\n-What If It\u2019s All Been A Big Fat Lie - https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html\n\xa0\n-The Doctor\u2019s Farmacy Podcast Episode #166 - Who Should Eat Keto and Why - https://drhyman.com/blog/2021/04/14/podcast-ep166/\n\xa0\n-Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes - https://amzn.to/3CTeWXr\n\xa0\nFor more on Gary you can follow him on Twitter @garytaubes, and through his website http://garytaubes.com/. Get his book The Case for Keto: Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating, at https://amzn.to/3m2eAai.\n\nInterested in joining The Dhru Purohit Podcast Facebook Community? Submit your request to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2819627591487473/.\n\nThis episode is brought to you by Vivobarefoot and InsideTracker.\n\nVivobarefoot footwear is designed to be wide, thin, and flexible, so you feel as close to barefoot as possible. They promote your foot's natural strength and movement and studies show that foot strength increases by 60% in a matter of months just by walking around in them. Right now they\u2019re offering my community 20% off their first order at vivobarefoot.com/DHRU.\n\nRight now, they\u2019re offering my podcast community 25% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU.\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices