Do You Know if You're Taking a Drug?

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There's a lot of anecdote thinking here that you would think scientists would not trust. But then there's something like the natural experiment method, say, that political scientists use. One of the arguments i make in the case for quito is that people who are metabolically disturbed. They're getting fat er. Their blood sugar's getting out of control. And when those women get pregnant, they're going to pass it on their kids. So there's so many different issues that get inflated into these simplistic answers.

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.