Gary Taubes - 'The Case Against Sugar'

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 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.

[johnnypenso]

Sugar is addictive, mentally and physically. It alters your hormones, spikes hunger signals etc. Sugar/processed carbs had me in it's grip until the age of 57. Going low carb, cutting out all carbs but for green vegetables and some nuts and avocados completely changed my life. Appetite control is automatic now, I eat 1-2x/day after eating 5-6x day for 15 years. Down to highschool weight again. Feeling like a million bucks.

[TL-hevu]

An intellectually honest and excellently laid out talk.

[Cyourself]

If all sugar drinks, including chocolate milk were eliminated from public schools the childhood obesity epidemic would slow down

[toni]

The whole world should have seen this talk from Gary by now.

[pratekag]

I left white processed sugar 7 months back. No ice cream, no chocolate, no ketchup, no mayonnaise etc. I eat fruits. Dates are my sugar treat. Earlier it was a chocolate or icecream after every meal.
First week was hell. Started exercising to overcome withdrawal symptoms. Overall very beneficial.

[musclesmouse]

50:25 gout is suggested here. I have gout and going keto has solved this problem for me. beef and other meats were red herrings. Mushrooms, asparagus, or any other high purine foods are also minor. Fructose from sugar/hfcs is the culprit and this chart shows a direct correlation. This is on orders hundreds to times higher than red meats and anything else I can eat. I bet there are no studies on this. Lets do a study where everyone has gout eats same amount of meat. one group eats with sugar/HFCS and one group does not. Count results. Then switch control and test group. Count results again. I bet everyone goes Keto once they realize that sugar and HFCS is the problem or at least no sugar/HFCS.

53:40 zero studies on sugar.

[writethisthat]

A dozen years ago I asked my former doctor for dietary advice. I he folded his arms and took a step back. "Not from me. Go to the internet if you want advice about diet." The last few years, I've lost nearly 40 lbs through a mostly keto diet.

[larry]

Seems like it's been a long battle for Gary, glad you've been keeping up the good fight. We're turning it around!

[martinirving]

Around 38:00 Taubes is saying he doesn't blame the sugar industry for what they did. I'm not so forgiving. Corporations are always ahead on what the science actually shows. The sugar industry knew the evidence was pointing to them. They put a lot of effort into making sure fat was implicated and remained so.

[alphacause]

Thanks Mr. Taubes for maintaining a sustained critique over the years with regards to the oversimplified view that the dietary and medical community holds concerning calories. In no other area, where the topic of energy is discussed, is the type and/or source of energy considered irrelevant. Only in the world of diet do so many so called "experts" look at the energy value of a food and think that is the end all be all of the discussion. Could you imagine a mechanical engineer telling his boss that his machine needs X many units of energy, and then telling him that the fuel source does not matter because energy is energy? If I run a sports car on regular unleaded fuel, verses super unleaded fuel, it will make a difference in the efficiency of the engine, regardless if both types of fuel contain the same amount of energy. If I try to run a car on coal, when it is meant to run on gasoline, the car will not move despite the fact that you can amass enough coal to produce as much energy as gas.

[robinlillian]

"Staying away from the doctor was good advice." It often still is.

[LDoctorKC]

Why is it so hard to do what I know is true. Sugar has been so hard on me yet it’s in everything. My daughter has become an insulin dependent t1 diabetic and still drawn to this blasted substance. Oh My Gosh, and we obsess over opioids or vaping when sugar and HFCS has done more damage than any of that. Thank you for keeping up the fight for our health.

[toni]

Thank you Gary, brilliant. More please.

[theroguetomato]

I had Keto fried chicken for the first time!! Woohoo!! Dang, it was good. Get a bag of chicharroness (fried pork rinds). I used plain. You can use spicy, but make sure there are no carbs, because they often add sugars to the spicy kind.
Crush the pork rinds in your hands down to the consistency of Panko. It crushes easily, takes only a few seconds. Add your spices. Dip the chicken in whipped eggs, then in the crushed pork rind, and fry. The chicken comes out REALLY crispy and delicious. Best fried chicken I've ever had, and not a carb to be seen anywhere.

[johnmadany]

Thanks Gary, appreciate your work! I always Benefit from the refresher course on the scientific method.

[micaonyx]

Sugar cause so many health problems. I'm a former sugar junkie who thought I could eat all the crappy food I wanted because I've never been over weight. I've always ate healthy organic meats, and vegetables. I also suffered from horrible depression for years. My doctor put me on antidepressant meds that I stopped after two weeks because it made me feel like a zombie. I started noticing what I ate and when my depression came on and I realized it was after binging on cookies cakes ice cream for 3 or 4 days. I was hypoglycemic and almost passed out a couple of times because my sugar dropped too low. Now I eat sweets as a special occasions and not because I think working out mean it's ok. I can't remember the last time I couldn't get off the couch because I was too depressed. Btw when my daughter was a girl scout, most of her sales was from my fellow gym members 😄

[chrissharkeyai]

This guy is fantastic! I'm going to buy his books

[stevelancaster]

As a school food district director it is sad we are forced by the national regulations to serve 15 servings of bread.

[caroldorsett]

Thank you for this great video! Follow the money as to why this was not called a pandemic and stopped. Diabetic disease and cancer are money makers.

[demiurge]

I met Garry back in 2012 and had a good conversation.. He used to focus on the carbs but a certain moment in time he left it out and joined Robert Lustig...