In a NYT Magazine cover story this weekend entitled "Is Sugar Toxic?", the smart, immensely knowledgeable science writer Gary Taubes offers a compelling argument for why sugar might possibly be the ...

Ten years ago, science writer Gary Taubes exercised an hour a day. He avoided fat in his diet, never even using milk in his oatmeal. But he kept gaining weight. As an experiment, the self-described ...

Gary Taubes is an award-winning science writer who studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford before turning to journalism. His work has appeared in numerous publications ...

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In last week’s New York Times Magazine, the science writer Gary Taubes argues forcefully that a range of chronic health problems — heightened rates of obesity, heart disease, and even some forms of ...

SPRINGFIELD - Award winning journalist and nutrition author Gary Taubes will speak on “Why We Get Fat and What to do About It,” on Nov. 12, at 7 p.m., in Judd Gymnasia, Union West, on the Springfield ...

The suspicion that refined sugar, the kind we spoon into our coffee or whip into our holiday-cookie dough, might be hazardous to our health is nothing new. William Dufty’s “Sugar Blues” (published in ...

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It’s no news flash that corporations that make money selling products that turn out to be harmful to our health have not only always opposed government regulation but have supported biased scientific ...

Is sugar the new tobacco? Best-selling author Gary Taubes asked that question in his latest book "The Case Against Sugar." He believes that the evidence shows that the answer is an overwhelmingly YES!