Gary Taubes strikes back

The Letters section of today’s New York Times Book Review carried Gary Taubes’ rebuttal to Gina Kolata’s self-serving review of Good Calories, Bad Calories. I was glad to see Gary strike back the way he did because it saved me some work. In her review published earlier this month Kolata took Taubes to task for…

TV alert

I just got word from Gary Taubes that the Larry King Live show he taped is airing tonight at 9 PM Eastern Time. He will be on discussing his book Good Calories, Bad Calories with Mehmet Oz and Andrew Weil. Hope you can catch it despite my not alerting you until the 11th hour.

Gary Taubes' new book

In going through the huge pile of mail confronting me when we got home from Europe, I found a prepublication copy of Gary Taubes’ new book Good Calories, Bad Calories. I’ve read the book in manuscript form when it was 800 plus pages, again when it was cut down to 700 or so pages, and…

The Great Cholesterol Con

I read Dr. Malcolm Kendrik’s book The Great Cholesterol Con in the UK-published edition several months ago, but have waited until now to review it because I was waiting to get the copy I had ordered from Amazon.com in the US to compare. Unfortunately, the version that Amazon.com sent me after three months of waiting…