Dr David Katz is on my favorite writers - a proponent of a whole-food, primarily plant-based, common-sense approach to eating. Looks like Taubes is still at it with his much-refuted theories on low-carb, apparently upset by the Hall study:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2015/08/31/diet-in-a-taubesy-turvy-world
Inevitably, and regrettably, this has induced Mr. Taubes to defend his disproven assertion, taking advantage of the once rarefied real estate doled out somewhat indiscriminately these days by The New York Times. Taubes references the Hall study, but misrepresents it. Dr. Hall did not set out to establish a diet people could follow for a lifetime; he set out to challenge a very specific assertion propounded by Mr. Taubes himself. The study selectively shows that the assertion that weight loss is exclusively about carbohydrate and insulin is false.
Taubes goes on to suggest that hunger is the neglected consideration in the world of weight control. He conveniently fails to mention the veritable mountains of scientific work devoted to that very topic. Michael Moss is not mentioned; Brian Wansink is not mentioned; David Jenkins is not mentioned;Barbara Rolls is not mentioned; and so on. Failure to consider hunger, and satiety, during a weight-loss attempt may be characteristic of the false hopes of dieters looking for a quick fix, and the slick hucksters who peddle the same – but pertains to no serious researcher I know. This is the classic "straw man" tactic, where the position being refuted isn't a position held by any reputable person in the first place. Satiety is a salient consideration in all work on weight loss worth a look in the first place.
The Taubes' rebuttal to the Hall rebuttal runs off the rails in other ways as well. The column insinuates, without quite saying it, that carbohydrate restriction induces weight loss without restricting calories, but this is not so. Carbohydrate restriction ineluctably reduces calorie intake, since carbohydrate is the main source of calories in all omnivorous diets – that of Homo sapiens included.
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http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2015/08/31/diet-in-a-taubesy-turvy-world
Inevitably, and regrettably, this has induced Mr. Taubes to defend his disproven assertion, taking advantage of the once rarefied real estate doled out somewhat indiscriminately these days by The New York Times. Taubes references the Hall study, but misrepresents it. Dr. Hall did not set out to establish a diet people could follow for a lifetime; he set out to challenge a very specific assertion propounded by Mr. Taubes himself. The study selectively shows that the assertion that weight loss is exclusively about carbohydrate and insulin is false.
Taubes goes on to suggest that hunger is the neglected consideration in the world of weight control. He conveniently fails to mention the veritable mountains of scientific work devoted to that very topic. Michael Moss is not mentioned; Brian Wansink is not mentioned; David Jenkins is not mentioned;Barbara Rolls is not mentioned; and so on. Failure to consider hunger, and satiety, during a weight-loss attempt may be characteristic of the false hopes of dieters looking for a quick fix, and the slick hucksters who peddle the same – but pertains to no serious researcher I know. This is the classic "straw man" tactic, where the position being refuted isn't a position held by any reputable person in the first place. Satiety is a salient consideration in all work on weight loss worth a look in the first place.
The Taubes' rebuttal to the Hall rebuttal runs off the rails in other ways as well. The column insinuates, without quite saying it, that carbohydrate restriction induces weight loss without restricting calories, but this is not so. Carbohydrate restriction ineluctably reduces calorie intake, since carbohydrate is the main source of calories in all omnivorous diets – that of Homo sapiens included.
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