2007

Tuesday, November 27th

5:00pm

The Quality of Calories

Science journalist Gary Taubes wrote the controversial 2002 New York Times Magazine article, “What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” which turned the spotlight onto high-fat, low carbohydrate diets. In his new book Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes probes the state of what we know (and what we think we know) about the relationship between nutrition, weight loss, health, and disease. What he discovers is that much of what passes for irrefutable scientific knowledge is in fact supposition and that many reputable scientists doubt the validity of nutritional advice currently promoted by the government and public health industry.

Taubes, author of Bad Science and Nobel Dreams, is a correspondent for Science magazine. The only print journalist to have won three Science in Society Journalism awards, given by the National Association of Science Writers, he has contributed articles to The Best American Science Writing 2002 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 and 2003.

SPONSORED BY

The Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism and The School of Public Health

LOCATION

Sibley Auditorium - Bechtel Engineering Center

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