
Person
Gary Taubes
Acting · Born 1956-04-30 · Rochester, New York, USA
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
Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat

Sugar Coated
Self - Author

Fat Fiction
Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author

FAT: A Documentary
Self - Journalist / Author

Fat Head
Self

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Self - Scientific Journalist

Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
Himself

The Perfect Human Diet
Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories

The Cholesterol Code
Self

FAT: A Documentary 2
Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
Filmography
- 2026The Cholesterol CodeSelf
- 2021FAT: A Documentary 2Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
- 2020Fat FictionSelf - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
- 2019FAT: A DocumentarySelf - Journalist / Author
- 2016Cholesterol: The Great BluffSelf - Scientific Journalist
- 2015Sugar CoatedSelf - Author
- 2014Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to EatHimself
- 2014That Sugar FilmSelf / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
- 2012The Perfect Human DietSelf / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
- 2009Fat HeadSelf
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