Gary Taubes

In a Swedish study published last month in JAMA Open Network, meat consumption was associated with cognitive health in individuals with a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s.

RFK Jr and the MAHA Initiative may have inverted the food guide pyramid, turning red meat and full-fat dairy back into health foods, but the American Heart Association has just doubled down on the low-fat, plant-based advice it’s been disseminating for de…

I’ve wanted to write for years about the seemingly unseemly tendency in the nutrition world to speculate about the dietary lessons we can learn when a prominent promoter of a particular dietary philosophy passes away.

My latest post on Unsettled Science: Johann Hari’s new book, Magic Pill, does a good job on the benefits and risks of taking a drug like Ozempic.

In the years after I published Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), I would frequently get emails from readers saying, in effect, “now that you’ve taken on nutrition science, would you look into climate change?”

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for years.

When nutritional epidemiologists conclude (as they always do) that some item of our diet or lifestyle associates with chronic disease, it’s inevitably news.

by GT When Nina Teicholz and I were discussing working together on a Substack newsletter, I suggested a name for it that I’d always joked I’d someday use: “Let’s Pretend This Is Science….”

That a plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat is the nutritional equivalent of common sense.

The very controversial history surrounding dietary therapy for obesity and diabetes comes down to one consistent and very obvious conflict.