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“Taubes’ manifesto is straight forward. Carbohydrates make us fat and they do so independently of the first law of thermodynamics. Forget about calories, you can eat as many or as few of those as you’d like, ultimately weight is purely about carbohydrates.”

Sorry, but Yoni is full of crap. Taubes DID NOT say an individual can eat infinite calories. What he does say, however, is that one can eat the same amount of carbohydrate and gain weight, while an equal amount of fat and protein will not cause the body to store fat. This is because eating large amounts of carbohydrate causes the body to over-secrete insulin from the resulting spike in blood sugar, which in turn causes the liver to store those carbohydrate calories as fat.

Fat and protein, when eaten in those same amounts, do not cause a spike in blood sugar, and thus cause no over secretion of insulin, no triggering of the liver to store calories as fat. Therefore, an equal amount of fat and protein do not make a person as fat as a person eating a similar amount of high carbohydrate food.

[caveat emptor]

Sorry, but Yoni is full of crap. Taubes DID NOT say an individual can eat infinite calories

Neither did Freedhoff. But that's peanuts compared to the loathsome behavior of the brilliant Taubes.

He declined to notify potential dieters of the extreme nutritional inbalance and future health hazards of the diet he was pushing. That diet is low in essential B vitamins and high in heme-iron, which is an easily absorbable form of iron, the buildup of which is potentially hazardous to one's health. There is no iron-homeostasis, and the buildup of iron continues inexorably, unabated if you continue to eat excess animal protein.

That inbalance can be easily corrected with a decent multivitamin and reduced eating of animal protein. About an ounce per day is all the protein one needs.