ChrisHallquist comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 1: Mainstream Nutrition Science on Obesity - Less Wrong

13 Post author: ChrisHallquist 25 December 2013 06:27PM

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 26 December 2013 06:59:45AM 4 points [-]

Never heard of that one before. What's the reason for your interest in it?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 December 2013 09:39:16AM 6 points [-]

Seems better researched than anything else I've ever read, and is equally indictive of the sort of medical consensus opinion which says saturated fat is bad for you.

Comment author: James_Miller 26 December 2013 07:33:04PM 3 points [-]

I agree. I've read the Perfect Health Diet several times and it has had a big impact on my diet.

Comment author: khafra 30 December 2013 06:24:42PM 1 point [-]

How's your weight and waist/neck/wrist measurments (assuming you don't have DEXA or immersion or something), now, compared to before you read the Perfect Health Diet?

Comment author: James_Miller 30 December 2013 06:44:46PM *  3 points [-]

I'm 5 foot 10 inches and have gone from around 170 to 150 pounds. More importantly, my Cholesterol has greatly improved going from

Whole Cholesterol 150 to 232; Triglycerides 98 to 69; HDL 33 to 76; LDL 98 to 142.

Despite what you might have heard, higher Cholesterol (if it's accompanied by more HDL) is better.

Comment author: shokwave 28 December 2013 11:40:48AM 1 point [-]

It's unfortunate that "calories in, calories out" and "saturated fats are bad" are both general medical consensuses (wow, that word is actually in dictionaries) - it seems very likely the first is true and the second false, but both issues have the same "medical consensus saying they're true vs fringe expert saying they're all wrong" dynamic.