Rewriting The Rules Of Longevity: What Nutrition Got Wrong

Gary Taubes challenges long-held nutrition beliefs and explains how refined carbohydrates, insulin, obesity, and diabetes may shape longevity. Gary Taubes examines how nutrition science developed some of its most influential ideas about fat, calories, obesity, and diabetes. He explains why he believes refined carbohydrates, sugar, and insulin deserve greater attention, and he connects metabolic health to chronic disease prevention, healthspan, and longevity. Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist, author, and co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative. His books include Rethinking Diabetes, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It, and Good Calories, Bad Calories. A recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award, he has also earned multiple Science in Society Journalism Awards for his reporting on health and science.