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Gary Taubes has written a controversial new book, Rethinking Diabetes, which argues the Victorians managed the disease better than we do. Is he right, asks David Cox

Continued from Part 4: I interviewed Gary Taubes by phone a few weeks ago, shortly after he gave a talk about the main ideas of his new book — Good Calories, Bad Calories — at UC Berkeley. The interview lasted about 2 hours. This is part 5.

More than 400m people around the world have diabetes, and many control the condition using insulin. But science writer Gary Taubes believes it’s this very treatment that is behind the current epidemic. Does his controversial case for a diet-based alternative to medicine have any bite?

In the news of the week ending January 5, 2024, are class-action candy, a free Mickey, and some more good books to add to your pile.

An easy fix to obesity is staring us in the face – so why are weight-loss drugs still so controversial?

Modern medicine makes it seem as if drugs are the only way to deal with diabetes. But what if diet can be a solution?

These titles make up our third group of nominees for Season 23 of the Next Big Idea Club.

Public Release: 21-Nov-2017   PLOS A U.S. sugar industry trade group appears to have pulled the plug on a study that was producing animal evidence linking sucrose to disease nearly 50 years ago, researchers argue in a paper publishing on November 21 in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Researchers Cristin Kearns, Dorie Apollonio and…

By now, you've likely heard the news that a low-fat diet is no good. Learn why grass fed is better when choosing your healthy fats and how to eat the ideal ratio of omega 3 to 6 fats.

Big Pharma has been attempting to cash in on the huge number of older Americans suffering from Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other forms of dementia for decades now, but the number of older Americans suffering from dementia just continues to increase. That's because AD is a form of diabetes, often referred to as "Type 3" diabetes, and is largely caused by older Americans taking too many drugs, prescription pharmaceutical drugs. The latest news to increase American senior'...