America is one of the most fitness- and diet-crazed nations on earth, so why are more and more Americans becoming obese? Conventional science has long touted the benefits of a low-fat carbohydrate-rich diet as the surest way to thin. Now a growing number of doctors are coming to believe that fatty foods may not be so bad for you. Read Gary Taubes' New York Times Magazine articleand tune in. (login required)
The Big Fat Lie
Gary Taubes, correspondent for Science and author of Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (Random House, 1993), says that Dr. Atkins was right all along.
It's The Calories, Stupid!
Marion Nestle, professor and chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University and author of Food Politics (University of California Press, 2002), insists you have to watch the numbers.
The Fat Of The Land
Marion Nestle and Gary Taubes exchange opinions on the way to lose weight.