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Top 30 Gary Taubes Quotes (2025 Update)

Gary Taubes Quote: “Sugar does induce the same responses in the region of the brain known as the “reward center” – technically, the nucleus accumbens – as do nicotine, cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. Addiction.”

1. “Sugar does induce the same responses in the region of the brain known as the “reward center” – technically, the nucleus accumbens – as do nicotine, cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. Addiction.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not.”

2. “The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “For some of these populations, the word for “hunger” in their native dialects translated to “when we have to eat plants.”

3. “For some of these populations, the word for “hunger” in their native dialects translated to “when we have to eat plants.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.”

4. “The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Carbohydrate-rich foods – grains, starchy vegetables, and sugars – work to keep insulin elevated in our circulation, and that traps the fat we eat in our fat cells and inhibits the use of that fat for fuel. That’s what the obesity research community should have been trying rigorously to resolve or refute for the past sixty years.”

5. “Carbohydrate-rich foods – grains, starchy vegetables, and sugars – work to keep insulin elevated in our circulation, and that traps the fat we eat in our fat cells and inhibits the use of that fat for fuel. That’s what the obesity research community should have been trying rigorously to resolve or refute for the past sixty years.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Any diet can be made healthy or at least healthier – from vegan to meat-heavy – if the high-glycemic-index carbohydrates and sugars are removed, or reduced significantly.”

6. “Any diet can be made healthy or at least healthier – from vegan to meat-heavy – if the high-glycemic-index carbohydrates and sugars are removed, or reduced significantly.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “We don’t get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we’re getting fat.”

7. “We don’t get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we’re getting fat.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Making LDL the “bad cholesterol” oversimplified the science considerably, but it managed to salvage two decades’ worth of research, and to justify why physicians had bothered to measure total cholesterol in their patients.”

8. “Making LDL the “bad cholesterol” oversimplified the science considerably, but it managed to salvage two decades’ worth of research, and to justify why physicians had bothered to measure total cholesterol in their patients.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “No such ambiguity existed about sugar consumption. “We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year,” as the University of London nutritionist John Yudkin wrote in 1963 of the situation in England. “Sugar provides about 20 percent of our total intake of calories and nearly half of our carbohydrate.”

9. “No such ambiguity existed about sugar consumption. “We now eat in two weeks the amount of sugar our ancestors of 200 years ago ate in a whole year,” as the University of London nutritionist John Yudkin wrote in 1963 of the situation in England. “Sugar provides about 20 percent of our total intake of calories and nearly half of our carbohydrate.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “The evidence suggests that nicotine induces weight loss by working on fat cells to increase their insulin resistance, while also decreasing the lipoprotein-lipase activity on these cells, both of which serve to inhibit the accumulation of fat and promote its mobilization over storage, as we discussed earlier.”

10. “The evidence suggests that nicotine induces weight loss by working on fat cells to increase their insulin resistance, while also decreasing the lipoprotein-lipase activity on these cells, both of which serve to inhibit the accumulation of fat and promote its mobilization over storage, as we discussed earlier.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.”

11. “In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century.”

12. “The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “The most fattening foods are the ones that have the greatest effect on our blood sugar and insulin levels.”

13. “The most fattening foods are the ones that have the greatest effect on our blood sugar and insulin levels.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “The point to keep in mind is that you don’t lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.”

14. “The point to keep in mind is that you don’t lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “How long would it be before this drug, as the anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz said about sugar, demonstrated “a near invulnerability to moral attack,” before even writing a book such as this one was perceived as the nutritional equivalent of stealing Christmas?”

15. “How long would it be before this drug, as the anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz said about sugar, demonstrated “a near invulnerability to moral attack,” before even writing a book such as this one was perceived as the nutritional equivalent of stealing Christmas?”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Yudkin blamed heart disease exclusively on sugar, and he was equally adamant that neither saturated fat nor cholesterol played a role. He explained how carbohydrates and specifically sugar in the diet could induce both diabetes and heart disease, through their effect on insulin secretion and the blood fats known as triglycerides.”

16. “Yudkin blamed heart disease exclusively on sugar, and he was equally adamant that neither saturated fat nor cholesterol played a role. He explained how carbohydrates and specifically sugar in the diet could induce both diabetes and heart disease, through their effect on insulin secretion and the blood fats known as triglycerides.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “You don’t get fat because your metabolism slows; your metabolism slows because you’re getting fat.”

17. “You don’t get fat because your metabolism slows; your metabolism slows because you’re getting fat.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Researchers have reported that the brain and central nervous system actually run more efficiently on ketones than they do on glucose.”

18. “Researchers have reported that the brain and central nervous system actually run more efficiently on ketones than they do on glucose.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “By the 1830s, when the British emancipationists finally put an end to the slave trade, some twelve and a half million Africans had been shipped off as slaves to the New World; two-thirds of them worked and died growing and refining sugar.”

19. “By the 1830s, when the British emancipationists finally put an end to the slave trade, some twelve and a half million Africans had been shipped off as slaves to the New World; two-thirds of them worked and died growing and refining sugar.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “This research supports the hypothesis that elevations of insulin and IGF will increase the risk of disease and shorten life, and so any diet or lifestyle that elevates insulin and makes IGF more available to the cells and tissues is likely to be detrimental.”

20. “This research supports the hypothesis that elevations of insulin and IGF will increase the risk of disease and shorten life, and so any diet or lifestyle that elevates insulin and makes IGF more available to the cells and tissues is likely to be detrimental.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Yudkin also fed high-sugar diets to college students and reported that it raised their cholesterol and particularly their triglycerides; their insulin levels rose, and their blood cells became stickier, which he believed could explain the blood clots that seemed to precipitate heart attacks.”

21. “Yudkin also fed high-sugar diets to college students and reported that it raised their cholesterol and particularly their triglycerides; their insulin levels rose, and their blood cells became stickier, which he believed could explain the blood clots that seemed to precipitate heart attacks.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Medicine today, though, as with related fields such as nutrition, is taught mostly untethered from its history. Students are taught what to believe but not always the evidence on which these beliefs are based, and so oftentimes the beliefs cannot be questioned. And.”

22. “Medicine today, though, as with related fields such as nutrition, is taught mostly untethered from its history. Students are taught what to believe but not always the evidence on which these beliefs are based, and so oftentimes the beliefs cannot be questioned. And.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “To cut to the chase, we are a carbohydrate substance abuse program, not a weight loss program.”

23. “To cut to the chase, we are a carbohydrate substance abuse program, not a weight loss program.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Fructose actually has unhealthy effects – including making us fat – that have little to do with its lack of vitamins or antioxidants and far more to do with how our bodies process it.”

24. “Fructose actually has unhealthy effects – including making us fat – that have little to do with its lack of vitamins or antioxidants and far more to do with how our bodies process it.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “As self-help and management advice books will often say, setting a goal and committing to it are vitally important. Without the commitment, we never get to find out if the goal is achievable. By diluting the commitment and allowing us to compromise, we never know.”

25. “As self-help and management advice books will often say, setting a goal and committing to it are vitally important. Without the commitment, we never get to find out if the goal is achievable. By diluting the commitment and allowing us to compromise, we never know.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “There’s a good reason, as Miller said to me, why alcoholics don’t celebrate the successful completion of a twenty-eight-day rehab program with a champagne toast.”

26. “There’s a good reason, as Miller said to me, why alcoholics don’t celebrate the successful completion of a twenty-eight-day rehab program with a champagne toast.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Astwood’s belief that those who fatten easily are fundamentally, physiologically and metabolically different from those who don’t. This implies that those of us who fatten easily can get fat on precisely the same food and even the same amount on which lean people stay lean. We can’t be told to eat like lean and healthy people eat and expect that advice to work, because we get fat eating like lean and healthy people. Indeed, we get fat and hungry eating like lean and healthy people do.”

27. “Astwood’s belief that those who fatten easily are fundamentally, physiologically and metabolically different from those who don’t. This implies that those of us who fatten easily can get fat on precisely the same food and even the same amount on which lean people stay lean. We can’t be told to eat like lean and healthy people eat and expect that advice to work, because we get fat eating like lean and healthy people. Indeed, we get fat and hungry eating like lean and healthy people do.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “All diets that result in weight loss do so on one basis and one basis only: They reduce circulating levels of insulin; they create and prolong the negative stimulus of insulin deficiency.”

28. “All diets that result in weight loss do so on one basis and one basis only: They reduce circulating levels of insulin; they create and prolong the negative stimulus of insulin deficiency.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “If the conventional thinking and advice worked, if eating less and exercising more were a meaningful solution to the problem of obesity and excess weight, we wouldn’t be here. If the true explanation for why we get fat were that we take in more calories than we expend and the excess is stored as fat, we wouldn’t be here.”

29. “If the conventional thinking and advice worked, if eating less and exercising more were a meaningful solution to the problem of obesity and excess weight, we wouldn’t be here. If the true explanation for why we get fat were that we take in more calories than we expend and the excess is stored as fat, we wouldn’t be here.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “Despite decades of obesity research, and billions of dollars spent in the laboratory and on clinical trials, the bedrock fundamental concept underlying all nutrition and dietary advice is that fat and lean people are effectively identical physiologically, and that our bodies respond to what we eat the same way, except that the fat people at some point in their lives ate too much and expended too little energy and so became fat, while the lean people didn’t.”

30. “Despite decades of obesity research, and billions of dollars spent in the laboratory and on clinical trials, the bedrock fundamental concept underlying all nutrition and dietary advice is that fat and lean people are effectively identical physiologically, and that our bodies respond to what we eat the same way, except that the fat people at some point in their lives ate too much and expended too little energy and so became fat, while the lean people didn’t.”

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Gary Taubes Quote: “This is not a diet book, because it’s not a diet we’re discussing. Once you accept the fact that carbohydrates – not overeating or a sedentary life – will make you fat, then the idea of “going on a diet” to lose weight, or what the health experts would call a “dietary treatment for obesity,” no longer holds any real meaning.”

31. “This is not a diet book, because it’s not a diet we’re discussing. Once you accept the fact that carbohydrates – not overeating or a sedentary life – will make you fat, then the idea of “going on a diet” to lose weight, or what the health experts would call a “dietary treatment for obesity,” no longer holds any real meaning.”

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