”Īlmost fifteen years later, much of what Taubes was pilloried for writing in 2002 has become conventional wisdom. The critical avalanche that followed was swift and relentless, including a Center for Science in the Public Interest newsletter cover accusing Taubes of promulgating “Big Fat Lies,” a Reason magazine takedown headlined, “Big Fat Fake,” and a Newsweek scolding, written by a former friend, titled, “ It’s Not the Carbs, Stupid. What sounds perfectly reasonable now - essentially a defense of Atkins and Paleo - was at the time akin to heresy. In July 2002, The New York Times Magazine published “ What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? ,” a cover story by food journalist Gary Taubes arguing that the carbohydrates in our diets, not the fat, were the likely cause of obesity and heart disease.
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