Book 29: Good Calories, Bad Calories

Given my suggestibility, you might think that having finished this book, I have now gone low-carb. I am not a low-carb person--it is virtually impossible to be truly low-carb and vegetarian/vegan, so it is not really my thing. But I did find the book interesting anyway. I have given some thought to being more cautious about refined carbohydrates like flour (even whole grain flours).



The book is so full of research that it's hard to imagine how scientists have not come to these conclusions--Taubes makes it sound like it's *so obvious* that insulin is the issue, not calories. But it makes me wonder how it could be so obvious and yet missed by so many.

In light of my intermittent fasting, I did like his explanation of waves of hunger possibly representing the body switching from using glucose as fuel to using glycogen and ketone bodies, and I like the idea that the brain might run better on ketone bodies than glucose! Bring on the fasting for brain power.

This is a 26-hour beast. Woe be unto the one who loses her place in the middle on an iPod Shuffle.