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Science works very well when you cal come up with a hypothesis and test it. The easier it is to test it, the better science works. You want to be able to scroupe an experiment over and over and over again until you're absolutely positively convinced that you haven't made a mistake. And more often than not, scientists make mistakes. This is where we start to go off the world,. When we get to fields that you can't do the experiments, climate change, cosmoogy. Now you're left with an nutrition because we're talking about, then we will get into this, the dietary causes of chronic diseases that develop over decades.

For years, health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. So why doesn’t it work for everyone? The Case for Keto puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we’ve come to think about obesity and diet. Shermer and Taubes discuss: scientific consensus, nutrition, replication, why Newtonian mechanics doesn’t work with human bodies, the physics model of calories, complicating variables, intermittent fasting, which fruits and vegetables you should consume and avoid, cholesterol, heart disease, statins, and why it is okay to have bacon-and-eggs for breakfast.