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Time was, many moons ago during the Cold Fusion nonsense, when science journalist Gary Taubes and I did not hit it off. He was incensed that I would write a story about a Texas A&M researcher who insisted he had replicated the (now) infamous Utah claims. I found Taubes to be, well, overbearing.

That was then. Now he’s written a terrific book, finally unmasking the diet hoax the government and Big Health and their press-release-rewriting collaborators in the legacy media (looking at you New York Times) have been pushing all these years, resulting in an obesity epidemic (and a growing diabetes one), which they still refuse to own up to.

Taubes, in essence, has given the Atkins Diet the respectability it has always deserved. Instead, it still is repeatedly tarred by the likes of the NYTimes, the American Heart Association, and the American Medical Association.

A restricted (or, better yet, no) starches, grains and sugars diet was well known to help people lose weight and keep it off, without any threat to their health, at least as far back as 1825. Taubes shows it all, and how it was confirmed by subsequent research and endured as the best advice available until it was undermined by Big Health’s low-fat drivel in the 1960s.

So, if you’re struggling to keep your weight (and blood pressure) down, while eating all that high-sugar, high-carb, low-fat junk the processed food industry churns out, do yourself a favor and get Taubes’s book. He wrote another, high-sciencey one, annotated with all the proofs. But unless you’re especially hard to convince (or you work for Big Health), you can skip that one.