EUGENIZATION.

I finally got around to watching the entirety of this video. If you don’t know who Gary Taubes is, he’s a science journalist who wrote my favorite book of the last 10 years, Good Calories, Bad Calories. In my opinion, this book is required reading for any health or medical professional (regardless of whether or not you agree with his points) and for the interested layperson.

Full disclosure: I liked this book so much that I bought a copy for each one of my clients and promply wrote, “This is the book I wish I’d had 10 years ago as an undergrad. It would’ve saved me so much time locating, reading, and evaluating the research and studies!” in each copy.

If you’re too cheap or disinterested to go out and buy the book, you can get a pretty good feel for the material by watching this video.

And if you’re too disinterested to even watch the video, then let me summarize Taubes’ theses in a few sentences:

1) Diseases of civilization (diabetes, heart disease, etc.) are caused by overconsumption of refined carbohydrate foodstuffs.

2) Obesity is a disease of hormonal disorder. This hormonal disorder is caused by elevated insulin, which is caused by overconsumption of refined carbohydrate foodstuffs.

3) Cholesterol and fat are not killers; bad science and politics made it seem so.

Sounds familiar, no?

Those of you who choose to, enjoy the video.