I'm not totally anti-Taubes and in fact, when I first read his books, I bought it hook-line-and-sinker but further reading of other viewpoints and more importantly, actual researchers and experts in the field (Taubes is a journalist, albeit a very intelligent and physics educated journalist) has convinced me that Taubes' focus is just too narrow. Last I heard he was moving more toward a "sugar is the devil" viewpoint and collaborating with Dr. Lustig on a new book. I think that's a more specific shot in the right direction. Also, to give Taubes credit, he founded an organization with another blogger (whose name I forget but it's very Greek) to fund research into his ideas.
I would encourage people to do their own reading and come to their own conclusions about this stuff. I think the Ancestral Health folks are on the right track with their emphasis on natural meats, vegetables, fruits and nuts. They are coming around to accepting starchy tubers and rice as acceptable but this wasn't the case a few years ago when Taubes was a leading influence for them. Humans have too many genetic markers for digesting starches to assume that these mostly carb foods are bad for us. A resistance to grass grains, sugar and vegetable oils is much easier to support. On Sunday, November 2, 2014 2:24:52 PM UTC-6, David Banzer wrote: > > First off, this isn't necessarily Riv-related, or even bike-related > technically, but it is Grant-related. If this falls outside the parameters > of this list, let me know, and Jim feel free to delete. > > I've been following Grant's new blog for his new book and am genuinely > interested in the diet/exercise viewpoint that he discusses and follows. > I guess my questions are (and answers probably should be offlist I guess): > Anyone follow a similar diet? > Your general experiences? > Your reasons for adopting this diet, and your experience in the transition > period? > Difficulties? > What would you bring on a lengthy bike ride (bike-related!) or overnight? > Thanks, > David > Chicago > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
