Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments

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).

Arthur Morey has performed in theatres and cabarets in New York, Chicago, and Milan. He freelanced scripts for Paramount and ABC-TV and won arts-council awards in New York and Illinois for plays and fiction. He taught writing and performing arts at Northwestern University, the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, SUNY Rockland, Fordham (Bronx), and elsewhere. He was literary manager of Chicago’s Body Politic Theatre. As associate editor at Northwestern University Press, he edited Viola Spolin’s Theater Games for the Classroom. He later was managing editor at Renaissance Books in LA, which published 40 titles a year. He’s won several earphones awards and was nominated for an “Audie” award in 2009. Arthur graduated from Harvard College and did graduate work at the University of Chicago.