{"id":2221,"date":"2011-10-18T22:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T05:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2011-10-18T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T05:54:44","slug":"book-review-why-we-get-fat-by-gary-taubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &#8220;Why We Get Fat&#8221; by Gary Taubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author went to a great pain to elaborate why we get fat, not from eating too many calories and\/or exercising too little &#8211; calories in and calories out theory &#8211; but from eat carbohydrates causing a spike in insulin which in turn shut down the burning of fat. The science was explained and it was convincing.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is to avoid carbohydrates or reduce its consumption down to 20 grams a day or less and eat fat the rest the way until you feel full. That&#8217;s it. Simple as that. The strange thing is that this method has been known since the 1950&#8217;s and yet the health organizations continue to debunk what has proven to work &#8211; probably due to the pressure from the food and health industries.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good easy read and well worth the time if controlling\/reducing the weight is your goal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=learbyblog-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=0307272702\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author went to a great pain to elaborate why we get fat, not from eating too many calories and\/or exercising too little &#8211; calories in and calories out theory &#8211; but from eat carbohydrates causing a spike in insulin which in turn shut down the burning of fat. The science was explained and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: &#8220;Why We Get Fat&#8221; by Gary Taubes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}