Gary Taubes

Biography

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The case for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).

Known For

That Sugar Film

Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat

The Perfect Human Diet

The Cholesterol Code

FAT: A Documentary

Fat Fiction

Fat Head

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

All Movies (10)

• The Cholesterol Code2026 · as Self
• FAT: A Documentary 22021 · as Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
• Fat Fiction2020 · as Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
• FAT: A Documentary2019 · as Self - Journalist / Author
• Cholesterol: The Great Bluff2016 · as Self - Scientific Journalist
• Sugar Coated2015 · as Self - Author
• Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat2014 · as Himself
• That Sugar Film2014 · as Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
• The Perfect Human Diet2012 · as Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
• Fat Head2009 · as Self