Good Calories Bad Calories

This book by Gary Taubes, a highly-respected science journalist for the New York Times, expounds on the evilness that is carbs.

Score one for the Atkins camp. Gary Taubes also wrote this somewhat controversial article in New York Magazine about why exercise doesn't necessarily make you thinner.

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