Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The case for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).
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That Sugar Film
as Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
2014
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Fat Head
as Self
2009
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Sugar Coated
as Self - Author
2015
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The Perfect Human Diet
as Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
2012
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Fat Fiction
as Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
2020
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FAT: A Documentary
as Self - Journalist / Author
2019
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FAT: A Documentary 2
as Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
2021
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Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
as Himself
2014
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Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
as Self - Scientific Journalist
2016
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The Cholesterol Code
as Self
2026