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Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes

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

The Cholesterol Code
The Cholesterol Code
2026 • Self
FAT: A Documentary 2
FAT: A Documentary 2
2021 • Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
Fat Fiction
Fat Fiction
2020 • Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
FAT: A Documentary
FAT: A Documentary
2019 • Self - Journalist / Author
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
2016 • Self - Scientific Journalist
Sugar Coated
Sugar Coated
2015 • Self - Author
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
2014 • Himself
That Sugar Film
That Sugar Film
2014 • Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat

Full filmography

FAT: A Documentary 2
FAT: A Documentary 2
2021 • Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
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Fat Fiction
Fat Fiction
2020 • Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
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FAT: A Documentary
FAT: A Documentary
2019 • Self - Journalist / Author
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Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
2016 • Self - Scientific Journalist
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Sugar Coated
Sugar Coated
2015 • Self - Author
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That Sugar Film
That Sugar Film
2014 • Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
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The Perfect Human Diet
The Perfect Human Diet
2012 • Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
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Fat Head
Fat Head
2009 • Self
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