Good Calories, Bad Calories

Why is it on the very day you want nothing more to do than sit at your computer and write, write, write madly, uninterrupted for hours, it's the very day that's filled to the brim with prior commitments in all directions leading away from where you most want to be? You feel fortunate to snatch even a few moments at the keyboard?

So it is for me today.

Never mind. Blog this I will, over the next few days, God willing. Whatever it takes to get the word out to my one or two readers about Gary Taubes' stunning new book Good Calories, Bad Calories, Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease.

Before I get started though, let me say I'm not wild about the title because to the casual observer, it looks like just another faddish diet book. And it's not. Not by a long, long shot.

This, in my opinion, is the most important, thoroughly researched, scientifically based book on the subject of food, the causes of weight gain, disease, mood disorders, depression, sleep disorders and energy that may have ever been written. It's a book for scientists, doctors, psychologists, criminologists, dietitians and anyone who is sick and tired of being sick and tired.

And that's an understatement.

My question is: Have we suffered enough living by conventional wisdom of eating?

The sad part is that though the truths in this book have been documented for generations and even centuries, there will be such resistance to them from the 'powers that be' who have vested interests in keeping things the way they are today. The medical/pharmaceutical/food industries just to name a few. But more about that later.

A commenter from my post yesterday named Mark guessed the name of the book I was referring to yesterday with this:

"Prediction: The book is "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes, and it is the single best volume on the subject I've ever read, bar none. Taubes started the popular inquiry into refined carbs in the American diet six years ago with a groundbreaking article in the New York Times Magazine. His new effort is exhaustively researched, free of ideology, and draws conclusions that seem obvious, when you think about them."

Thanks, Mark. Couldn't agree more. Back to the computer as soon as I can.

Get ready for politically incorrect wisdom on the subject of eating our way back to better health.