Gary Taubes
Biography: 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 for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), 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 University (1981).
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Birthday: April 30, 1956
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Sugar Coated
2015-04-25
Sugar Coated
Overview: The investigation and exposure of the US sugar industry’s systematic hijacking of scientific study to bury evidence that sugar is—in fact—toxic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
2016-10-18
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Overview: The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-18
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Fat Fiction
2020-03-13
Fat Fiction
Overview: Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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FAT: A Documentary
2019-07-19
FAT: A Documentary
Overview: Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all our good intentions, we go on getting fatter and fatter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-19
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That Sugar Film
2014-07-31
That Sugar Film
Overview: One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-31
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FAT: A Documentary 2
2021-01-03
FAT: A Documentary 2
Overview: FAT: A Documentary 2 is the sequel to the international sensation that delves deeper into the lies and myths surrounding the age old question: "What should I be eating?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-03
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Fat Head
2009-02-03
Fat Head
Overview: A comedian replies to the "Super Size Me" crowd by losing weight on a fast-food diet while demonstrating that almost everything you think you know about the obesity "epidemic" and healthy eating is wrong.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-03
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The Perfect Human Diet
2012-05-22
The Perfect Human Diet
Overview: "The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - the #1 killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the first time, the authentic human diet. Film audiences finally have the opportunity to see what our species really needs for optimal health and are introduced to a practical template based on these breakthrough scientific facts.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-22
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Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
2014-09-25
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
Overview: One in three Americans is pre-diabetic. A huge percentage of them do not know that they are sick. Adult onset diabetes is no longer an illness for the obese and elderly. Millions of Americans who regularly exercise and eat a diet recommended by the USDA are classified as "skinny-fat". The connection between the standard American diet and numerous metabolic disorders is now an unspoken fact in most medical circles
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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