Gary Taubes
Science and health journalist
Gary Taubes is an American science and health journalist who writes about nutrition and obesity, including in Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar.
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American Born 1956 in Rochester, United States
About Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes was born in Rochester, New York. He studied applied physics at Harvard, then engineering at Stanford, and earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1981. He joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982 and has since written for Science and other magazines. His early reporting centered on physics, and he later turned to medicine and nutrition. Taubes has written books on scientific controversies, from Nobel Dreams to Good Calories, Bad Calories. In Why We Get Fat, he argues that carbohydrates raise insulin, which causes the body to store fat. He also wrote The Case Against Sugar (2016) and co-founded the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative. He has won the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award three times.