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You meatheads sure do provide a high entertainment value. Signed, Primal Lunatic

Except engineers are much, much smarter in general. No offense. Facts are facts.

If you read all the posts to this point you have more patience than me. Taubes is either loved or hated. Personally I think he's brought a lot of value to my own nutritional knowledge, and it has paid off. Ultimately though, Mark Sisson >>>> Gary Taubes. I read Mark's stuff daily.

This 100 times over. You're "thinner" and feel great. What's the problem?

Mark'sdailyapple.com is my favorite site for paleo/primal information. Basically he's not quite as strict as some of the other paleo people, and it has worked very well for me. 47 lbs since 1/1, and I love what I eat.

What happened in the 60's and 70's that changed the way Americans eat? The government adopted the low fat/high carb diet as gospel. Processed foods like cereals exploded. It snowballed from there. Every diet has the fanatics that take things to the extreme. If you are listening to people on the internet about nuances of…

I don't post that for your pleasure, I post it for the hundreds of people on this site that continue to struggle with weight loss because you post your tired "eat less, workout more" over and over again. There sure seems to be a hell of a lot of "anecdotes" that primal / paleo works for many people.

http://robbwolf.com/2012/07/06/maintaining-weight-loss-jama-study/

I've lost 45 lbs in 6 months now on a ratio of 40% fat, 30-35% protein, 25-30% carbs, with nearly all carbs coming from fruits or sweet potatoes. I couldn't be more thrilled with the food choices and subsequent results that a breakdown like this offers.

I've browsed it. Like I said before, it's quite simple to refute nearly every study in existence regarding diet and nutrition. I'm not interested because I've found what works for myself and others I know. I will encourage others to take the same approach as me when they ask for advice or express dissatisfaction with their…

I'm pretty sure I explained my process there. Those that have been through a fight and succeed hold a lot more weight than those that watched a battle and reported the results. This goes for everything in life. I've seen Taubes. He's never tried to present himself as an athletic specimen, and he's far from fat, let alone…

"Information" is pretty loose here. It's a lot of opinion. Someone who has struggled and solved it has a lot more experience than someone who was gifted with a naturally high metabolism and has thus not struggled.

Obviously there is study after study that refutes a previous study and vice versa. From purely anecdotal evidence Taubes' theory works (for myself and multiple others I know personally). Other methods can and will work for other people, just like some methods won't work. Again, it's not simple. Diet is extremely complex.…

I'm not sure we even read the same book if that is your takeaway. What an incredible oversimplification of what was presented. There is a growing body of evidence that it's not so simple as in>out, yet the flat earthers can't admit our understanding is changing. Our bodies are incredibly complex, so I'm not sure why people…

...says the skinny guy that's never had an issue with weight. Explain why study after study cited and reviewed is "a bunch of garbage."

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Get through that and tell me it's as simple as in & out.