Bruce,
thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this book.

from another list:
He mentions Price in the acknowledgments:
"The book that may have been most influential in altering my
perspective and yet never made it into this text for reasons of
narrative, flow and length, was Weston Price's 1939 classic Nutrition
and Physical Degeneration."

--- In AV-Skeptics@yahoogroups.com, <rensielk@...> wrote:
>
> I've been reading Gary Taubes's book "Good Calories, Bad
> Calories" for the past few days. I'm half-way through, but
> I'll make a few comments on what I've read.
>
> 1. Taubes seems to use the words "refined carbohydrates"
> and "carbohydrates" interchangeably, often changing from
> one to the other for no particular reason. The research is
> not consistent with this usage, IMO. He also says that the
> "easily digestible" carbs may be just as bad as the refined
> ones. I don't see any research justifying this.
>
> 2. He mentions many explorers and doctors who observed
> the decline of primitive people when they switched to a
> diet of refined sugar, white flour, and white rice. But he
> makes no mention of Weston Price. He is not listed in the
> index or the first half of the book, so I don't think Taybes
> included any discussion of Price. This is odd, because the
> book seems to be meticulously researched.