American science journalist who challenged the dietary fat-heart disease hypothesis and argued that carbohydrates (not fat) are the primary driver of obesity and metabolic disease.
Good Calories, Bad Calories: a comprehensive critique of the low-fat dietary consensus — arguing it is based on poor science, and that insulin-driven carbohydrate metabolism is the correct model. Why We Get Fat: a more accessible version. His work helped launch the low-carbohydrate research renaissance.
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