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If low carb diet work for weightloss (and it does), then why do low carb authors distort, mislead, cherry pick and makes stuff up in their books. This post is designed to serve as a library of these wrongs for Gary Taubes. It's up to you to decide what is going on here. 1.  An Open Letter to Gary Taubes Highlights include: "That’s four experts for just one article saying you did not relay the reality of what they were telling you, and instead twisted the facts to push your own preconceived narrative." 2.  Interfering with the Kevin Hall NuSI Study after the results of the study did not support his insulin hypothesis of obesity. The details below were tweeted by Kevin Hall. Further details covered in this article  THE COLLAPSE OF A $40 MILLION NUTRITION SCIENCE CRUSADE 3.  Kevin Bass created this excellent thread on Twitter. Highlights include: when I was reading GCBC, I was struck with two facts: first, Gary's unparalleled grasp of

Low Carb Fraud 2 – NuSI UPDATE: NuSI have redesigned their website so some links no longer work. Maybe they didn't like getting found out? In 2012 journalist Gary Taubes and doctor turned low carb activist Peter Attia founded the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). Their objectives can be found here  but the following extracts summarise the main elements: Almost 40 years ago the Dietary Goals for the United States was established for all Americans to follow. Inconclusive scientific data were the basis for the guidelines. DRAMATIC RISE IN OBESITY AND DIABETES RATES Dietary guidelines have rarely been supported by research, with most studies being inconclusive. With guidelines that remain largely unchanged and no direction to Americans, obesity and diabetes rates continue to climb. The need for additional nutrition and disease research is undeniable. NuSI wanted to ask some questions: And all of this is done within an overarching strategy that systematical

Low Carb Fraudsters – Part 1 It has become pretty clear that Low Carb has become more than just a method of restricting calories (although low carbers often deny that bit) in order to lose weight and is becoming a cult. Anyone on social media who questions the exaggerated claims or cherry picked nonsense from low carbers gets attacked by their followers. This often includes swearing, shamming, personal attacks and rarely includes anything factual. The problem is if people don’t call out the bullshit more and more people will fall for the hype and miss out on the reality that Low Carb is just a way of restricting calories and calorie restriction is what causes weight loss. Lets look at some of the craziness from the main low carbers My guess is whoever was on the till was either a, a drug dealer, or b offered her a Snickers because they though she might be a hungry Jimmy Krankie. A consistent trend in all things low carb is the conspiracy, the big, big conspiracy. Many, if