Gary Taubes

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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).

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2026
The Cholesterol Code
Movie Self
2021
FAT: A Documentary 2
Movie Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
2020
Fat Fiction
Movie Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
2019
FAT: A Documentary
Movie Self - Journalist / Author
2016
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Movie Self - Scientific Journalist
2015
Sugar Coated
Movie Self - Author
2014
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
Movie Himself
2014
That Sugar Film
Movie Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
2012
The Perfect Human Diet
Movie Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
2009
Fat Head
Movie Self