Three-time National Association of Science Writers award winner
Gary Taubes
discusses his new book
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
7 p.m. at The Wistar Institute
3601 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Photo:
Kirsten Lara Getchell
Part 1, Part 2 |
About the Book: One in three U.S. adults is obese. How can this epidemic be explained? Many calorie-limiting diets are unsuccessful, argues author Gary Taubes, because there are both good calories and bad calories. Through a scientific investigation, Taubes challenges conventional diets, arguing the key to maintaining a healthy weight is to increase good calories and limit bad calories.
About the Author: Gary Taubes is the only three-time winner of the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. Taubes was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from 1996 to 1997. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering at Stanford University and studied applied physics at Harvard. His previous books include Nobel Dreams (1987) and Bad Science: the Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993). He has written articles for Discover, Science, New Scientist, and The New York Times magazine.
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