I finished reading this book over the bank holiday weekend and was very impressed, immediately adding it to my recommended books list. In the past I had read the Diet Delusion aka Good Calories Bad Calories, a great book, but unless you had a particular interest in nutritional science you would find it very hard going to work through. In WWGF, Taubes makes the same ideas available to a wider audience.
This is not a diet book per se, rather a look at the way the body metabolises and utilises different fuels. In doing so Taubes explains why some foods are more likely to end up being stored as fat (hint...sugars and refined carbs!)
Here are a few of the questions and ideas addressed in WWGF.....
- The hormonal and enzymatic reactions responsible for fat storage and what foods trigger them
- Why one person can get fat and another stays lean when eating a very similar diet
- Why eating the wrong foods, drives hunger and overeating
- Why not all calories are created equal when it comes to fat gain/loss
- Flawed conventional wisdom on what we should be eating and how it came to be
- Why under-eating is a not a viable long term fat loss solution
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