{"id":173,"date":"2008-01-27T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/rethinking-our-health\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T19:46:43","slug":"rethinking-our-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/rethinking-our-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking our health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone read Gary Taubes\u2019 controversial book \u201cGood Calories, Bad Calories?\u201d In the book, Taubes debunks the widely known theory that the twin epidemics of obesity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Diabetes_Diet\/\" title=\"Diabetes Diet\" target=\"_blank\">diabetes<\/a> in this country are due to an excessive amount of fat in our diets. Instead, he combs through thousands of research studies and data from all over the world and comes to the conclusion that these conditions are due to an excess amount of refined carbohydrates in our diets like sugar, white flour and other starches that digest quickly.<\/p>\n<p>His book, although very scientific, is a fascinating look at how our emphasis on a low-fat, low cholesterol and low sodium diet may have been just a well-postulated hypothesis by the medical, nutrition and public health professions with no conclusive and definitive evidence by clinical trials to prove that these kinds of diets would in fact keep us lean and prevent heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019re willing to think out-of-the-box when it comes to what we\u2019ve been told and preached to for years on preventive health and nutrition, this is a book that is definitely worth the mental labor put into reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone read Gary Taubes\u2019 controversial book \u201cGood Calories, Bad Calories?\u201d In the book, Taubes debunks the widely known theory that the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes in this country are due to an excessive amount of fat in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/rethinking-our-health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,3695,804],"tags":[896,4632,6084,31,385,3303,7190],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-heart-disease","tag-cholesterol","tag-gary-taubes","tag-good-calories-bad-calories","tag-health-news","tag-low-fat-diet","tag-low-sodium-diet","tag-refined-carbohydrates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}