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Gary Taubes revisits his case for ketogenic diets with new evidence on insulin resistance, metabolic flexibility, and why the calorie model of obesity continues to dominate despite weak evidence.
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Taubes argues that the low-fat dietary guidelines of the 1970s-80s were based on weak evidence but became institutional truth that spread globally. Correcting this falsehood has taken decades because institutions resist admitting error.
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The calories-in-calories-out model persists because it is simple, not because it is correct
Taubes argues that CICO dominates nutrition science not because the evidence supports it but because it provides a simple, memorable framework that requires no understanding of endocrinology or metabolism.