The Case for Keto: The Truth About Low-Carb, High-Fat Eating

Gary Taubes

Jan 2021 · Bolinda · Narrated by Holter Graham

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8 hr 59 min

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Conventional weight-loss advice is failing millions of people. In this ground-breaking audiobook, the bestselling author of The Case Against Sugar exposes the bad science behind it and explains how a low-carb, high-fat diet could hold the key to losing weight – for good. Eat less, lose more: a mantra few of us would disagree with, and one we’ve heard countless times in official health advice. And yet doctors treating diabetes and obesity are experiencing extraordinary results among patients by taking a different approach – not by counting calories, but by eating a low-carb, high-fat diet. Setting out the case for this ‘ketogenic’ approach to eating, Gary Taubes analyses the bad science behind the nutritional dogma that has brought us to a diabetes and obesity crisis. He shows how the fat shaming so prevalent in our society is a result of scientists mistakenly believing that we get fat because we consume more energy than we expend; that those who fatten easily have no willpower. In reality, he argues, we fatten due to our hormonal makeup and lowering insulin levels is the only way to lose weight without crippling hunger. Full of eureka moments, this explosive audiobook offers hope for anyone wishing to prevent or reverse diabetes or obesity, and makes the merits of a ketogenic lifestyle impossible to ignore.

About the author

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 Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It and Good Calories, Bad Calories (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).

Holter Graham is an American stage, television and screen actor. Between 2009 and 2012, Holter won five AudioFile awards for Best of Fiction, Best of Fantasy and Best of Mystery and Suspense. This highly experienced narrator has read audiobooks for bestselling authors such as Scott Turow, Dean Koontz and Nicholas Sparks.

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