Name
Gary Taubes
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1956-04-30 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Biography
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The case for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).
Known For
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One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a uniq...
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The investigation and exposure of the US sugar industry’s systematic hijacking of scient...
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Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to ...
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Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question dec...
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"The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our ...
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FAT: A Documentary 2 is the sequel to the international sensation that delves deeper into ...
- 2015 Sugar Coated as Self - Author
- 2016 Cholesterol: The Great Bluff as Self - Scientific Journalist
- 2020 Fat Fiction as Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
- 2019 FAT: A Documentary as Self - Journalist / Author
- 2014 That Sugar Film as Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
- 2021 FAT: A Documentary 2 as Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
- 2009 Fat Head as Self
- 2012 The Perfect Human Diet as Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
- 2014 Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat as Himself
- 2026 The Cholesterol Code as Self
