Good Calories, Bad Calories

Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue A Brief History of Banting

Part One

THE FAT-CHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS

1 The Eisenhower Paradox

2 The Inadequacy of Lesser Evidence

3 Creation of Consensus

4 The Greater Good

Part Two

THE CARBOHYDRATE HYPOTHESIS

5 Diseases of Civilization

6 Diabetes and the Carbohydrate Hypothesis

7 Fiber

8 The Science of the Carbohydrate Hypothesis

9 Triglycerides and the Complications of Cholesterol

10 The Role of Insulin

11 The Significance of Diabetes

12 Sugar

13 Dementia, Cancer, and Aging

Part Three

OBESITY AND THE REGULATION OF WEIGHT

14 The Mythology of Obesity

15 Hunger

16 Paradoxes

17 Conservation of Energy

18 Fattening Diets

19 Reducing Diets

20 Unconventional Diets

21 The Carbohydrate Hypothesis I: Fat Metabolism

22 The Carbohydrate Hypothesis, II: Insulin

23 The Fattening Carbohydrate Disappears

24 The Carbohydrate Hypothesis III: Hunger and Satiety

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

A Note About the Author

Also by Gary Taubes

Copyright

FOR

SLOANE AND HARRY, MY FAMILY

Prologue

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BANTING