Check out the video in post 3 ... you might be recommending that to folks as much as the Taubes book. Dr. Attia is a ‘colleague’ of Taubes and he is very articulate, excellent at explaining study results, etc. It’s made a big difference for me.
Taubes, Attia, Lustig, and on and on, are all hustlers who've learned that it is much easier to promote diet fads, sell diet advice, and earn lecture fees by demonizing one macronutrient over another rather than offering the more logical, yet boring, counsel that you should eat less and exercise more. Books fly off the shelf when fats or carbohydrates are accused of being the problem, while the rather obvious idea that total calories is the problem is something that few are willing to pay for.
There are all sorts of causes for obesity, but we would all be much better off - at least as a starting point - if we would accept the fact that it's the total number of calories that's important, not the macronutrient, or the macronutrent ratio.
I will watch it. Thanks!