Gary Taubes PBS interview www.pbs.org You’re not talking about a diet with no carbs, just a reduced amount? The underlying philosophy is this kind of Paleolithic diet theory. It’s what we ate during the 2 million years that we were hunter-gatherers on this planet. The fact that we were hunter-gatherers for 2 million years suggests it was an extraordinarily successful evolutionary adaptation. The question is: What did we eat during these 2 million [years] when we left the jungle, the trees, went down into savanna and started surviving on whatever we could hunt or gather? That’s the philosophy. The answer is, probably considerable meat, very low glycemic index, hard-to-digest roots and starches, and fruits and berries that look nothing at all like the beautiful Fuji applies you can buy at your local market now. Some carbohydrates, but whatever it was, it wasn’t refined. It wasn’t sugar. It wasn’t flour. It wasn’t easy to digest. That’s my going theory. If this theory’s right, the diet we evolved to eat is probably the correct diet. Story from: abcnews.go.com By VICKI MABREY Sept. 27, 2007 In a world of fad diets and ever-changing ideas on how to get thin, Gary Taubes is not just another diet guru but a journalist who has covered science for the past 30 years. Could everything we know about dieting and exercise be wrong? It was Taubes who wrote the eye-opening — and controversial — New York Times magazine cover story five years ago that asked the near-blasphemous question …
9:23 pm on August 2nd, 2010
This report was awful. Yea, let’s ask pol who run businesses about nutrition! they should of interviewed someone from coca-cola.
9:35 pm on August 2nd, 2010
lol who cares about this moron?
10:27 pm on August 2nd, 2010
@awaken69 totally agreed… and when people go into the gym to “lose weight” all they’re looking to do is burn calories on an elliptical, and they just end up making themselves hungry. weight lifting is the real key to being fit because it triggers optimal hormone levels for both building muscle and burning fat. hormones are very important in my opinion
11:23 pm on August 2nd, 2010
Night line is making him out as a crazy man. Mainstream media……..sheeeesh!
11:49 pm on August 2nd, 2010
taubes is awesome, but it’s also clear that moderate exercise and keeping your muscles strong is also very important for various reasons. the problem is just that a lot of people go into the gym *to lose weight*, which is not a good strategy. losing weight is foremost a matter of proper nutrition. also, carbs from non-starchy veggies are completely harmless. all things high in sugars and low in fibers def. are problematic tho.
11:50 pm on August 2nd, 2010
Fuck grains. Seriously. Although I think the even more pressing issue with grains is all of the toxic shit in them. Phytates, Lectins, saponins, fucking gluten and its derivatives which nobody should be eating, celiac disease or not. Gross.
Of course the carbs are still downright terrible in the context of insulin resistance, which is pretty much the case with everyone over the age of 30.
12:15 am on August 3rd, 2010
Thanks for sharing this, I love Gary Taubes and he knows what he is up against. I totally agree that salt is not the cause of high blood pressure, my blood pressure is under control now that I stopped eating a high carb diet and I still salt my eggs and eat bacon and I have no water retention. I walk 2 miles everyday because I feel better mentally to be outdoors.