Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and cofounder of the nonprofit Nutrition Science Initiative NuSIorg He is the author of The case for keto rethinking weight control and the science and practice of lowcarbhighfat eating 2020 The Case Against Sugar 2016 Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It 2011 and Good Calories Bad Calories 2007 published as The Diet Delusion in the UK Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and has won numerous other awards for his journalism These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award which he won in 1996 1999 and 2001 He is the first print journalist to win this award three times Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an SB degree in applied physics and received an MS degree in engineering from Stanford University 1978 and in journalism from Columbia University 1981