Interview with Gary Taubes (part 5)

Interview with Gary Taubes (part 5)

Continued from Part 4: I interviewed Gary Taubes by phone a few weeks ago, shortly after he gave a talk about the main ideas of his new book — Good Calories, Bad Calories — at UC Berkeley. The…
Got The Gout, Ebenezer?  Cut Back On Soda

Got The Gout, Ebenezer? Cut Back On Soda

Gout, or metabolic arthritis, was considered by Hippocrates “the disease of kings” because only wealthy people with rich diets got it. This was true until the early 20th century when cases went down…