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Good Calories, Bad Calories

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What if everything you thought you knew about nutrition and exercise was wrong? Thats what journalist Gary Taubes contends in his controversial new book Good Calories, Bad Calories, and hes with Deborah on this edition of Healthy Talk to challenge the conventional role of diets, weight control and disease.

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Healthy Talk Radio: Author Gary Taubes

Author Gary Taubes joins Deborah to talk about his controversial new book “Good Calories, bad Calories,” which contends that almost everything we knew about a healthy diet is wrong - The key isn’t the number of calories that we take in, but the type we take in

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Good Calories, Bad Calories

In this groundbreaking book, award–winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong - the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones.

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Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, Bad Science and Nobel Dreams, is a correspondent for Science magazine. The only print journalist to have won three Science in Society Journalism awards, given by the National Association of Science Writers, he has contributed articles to The Best American Science Writing 2002 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 and 2003. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.

Friday • March 20

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