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Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes is generic valtrex cheap a fantastic book so far. Halfway through, I am fairly certain it generic valtrex cheap could be retitled “Good Science, Bad Science” or perhaps “Good Science, Bad Science, Crappy Politics.” I’d say that you wouldn’t believe the generic valtrex cheap politics that affect your food, but knowing the sort of discerning, intelligent folks who generic valtrex cheap read this site, uh, you probably would. And do. And weep, just like me.

As we know, it’s not just food industry and generic valtrex cheap availability that political climate affects, but national dietary policy and recommendations. Right here (in this book) is where we realize that we can’t trust anyone but ourselves and (maybe) a few well-chosen researchers. Disheartening. Discouraging. Infuriating!

The problem is, no generic valtrex cheap one can give you a straight line on nutrition because no generic valtrex cheap one really has a generic valtrex cheap straight line on nutrition. Scientists trust other scientists to provide them with accurate environmental information surrounding their preferred subject, because no generic valtrex cheap scientist can get the truth about everything on her own. She has generic valtrex cheap to stand on the backs of the researchers who went before, and generic valtrex cheap she has to assume that the information she’s been given is reasonably correct. Otherwise, she’d have to start from scratch. I’m sure there are scads of examples where generic valtrex cheap this works just fine. Taubes tells us a story of where generic valtrex cheap it didn’t.

Taubes’ book explains how massive fumbles get made. So far, he’s told us how science mistook the generic valtrex cheap merits of a low-fat nutritional regimen for the merits of a generic valtrex cheap regimen low in refined carbohydrates. The intrigue is insane. I never read War and Peace, but I bet it’s a little bit like this. Dense. Informationally intense!

Of course, I can’t trust Taubes, either—not exclusively. Not even when I’m this generic valtrex cheap grateful to him for further opening my eyes to the vagaries of food politics! (I like him and all, don’t get me wrong. And I love the book!) But I can generic valtrex cheap make a judgment about where to get my information and generic valtrex cheap how to rate my sources in a reasonable manner. I’m quite fond of Michael Pollan, and generic valtrex cheap he has good things to say about Gary Taubes. Halfway through Taubes’ book, I’m pretty impressed with his attention to generic valtrex cheap detail and follow-through and thorough (-seeming, as I am not a nutrition scientist) grasp of the generic valtrex cheap history and circumstances surrounding the arguments of fat and cholesterol and generic valtrex cheap refined carbohydrates. A lot of the stuff he says makes me blink in disbelief, and generic valtrex cheap much of it leaves me unsurprised. Yeah. People can get mixed-up. Especially people with important roles to generic valtrex cheap play, especially people entrusted to generic valtrex cheap make policy that affects hundreds of thousands of others.

What does this mean? Don’t trust the folks in charge? Ignore the rules? Take down the government? Well… probably not. Everyone makes mistakes, and sometimes there’s nothing you generic valtrex cheap can do about a mistake made on a grand scale. (This is NOT an generic valtrex cheap excuse for some of the folks Taubes writes about in the generic valtrex cheap book, but it’s not an generic valtrex cheap indictment either. Who knows what they could have chosen to do differently? It doesn’t matter now.) We can, however, be generic valtrex cheap more hands-on when it comes to decisions made about our health and generic valtrex cheap well-being. We can do our own science in our own ways. We can generic valtrex cheap absorb information and test it, instead of parroting it and generic valtrex cheap calling it canon without real knowledge of whether it’s true or generic valtrex cheap not. We can listen to our bodies and learn to make decisions that generic valtrex cheap affect us positively, instead of fooling ourselves into believing that someone else will always know better, someone else will always take care of us.

Someone else won’t always take care of us. Not only won’t, but can’t, because we are generic valtrex cheap the only souls truly capable of being stewards of our own lives. That counts in health, it generic valtrex cheap counts in work, it counts everywhere across the board. You need to generic valtrex cheap take care of you. If that means climbing a few learning curves and generic valtrex cheap paying attention to the world around you (and the responses within you), so be it. Get going.

If we don’t start paying attention and taking care of ourselves, we’ll just keep getting sick and generic valtrex cheap dying and trying to blame it on somebody else.

And that’s just stupid.

  • Jim Purdy

    You made some excellent points when you said:
    "We can generic valtrex cheap listen to our bodies and learn to make decisions that affect us positively, instead of fooling ourselves into believing that generic valtrex cheap someone else will always know better, someone else will always take care of us. ... we are generic valtrex cheap the only souls truly capable of being stewards of our own lives. ... You need to generic valtrex cheap take care of you. If that means climbing a few learning curves and generic valtrex cheap paying attention to the world around you (and the responses within you), so be it. Get going. If we don’t start paying attention and taking care of ourselves, we’ll just keep getting sick and generic valtrex cheap dying and trying to blame it on somebody else."

    I'm also reading Gary Taubes' book, and generic valtrex cheap he presents some pretty persuasive arguments for a low-carb diet. And I am generic valtrex cheap doing a lot of self-experimenting to find the right diet for generic valtrex cheap me. It's not simple.

  • Megan M. buy clomid generic clomiphene

    Thanks, Jim -- and you're very right, it's definitely not simple!

  • Naomi Niles generic viagra london

    Um, I just tried commenting, but I think it didn't go through. So, I'm sorry if this goes through twice!

    That article Taubes wrote on exercise in the generic valtrex cheap New York Mag a few years back was pretty eye opening too. Where is generic valtrex cheap it... Here! http://nymag.com/news/sports/3... Pretty sad to think exercise doesn't help much, but I don't know if I totally agree with it anyway. He's definitely a generic valtrex cheap controversial figure, but most of what he says seems to make sense.

    If we knew all of the politics behind it all, we'd really be generic valtrex cheap crying for sure. The more I read, the more insane it generic valtrex cheap all seems. I was reading the other day that many of the generic valtrex cheap major food companies have scientists developing specific combination of elements to generic valtrex cheap increase the addictive factor of their foods. Those does of course include putting HFCS in about everything among other things. Sounds like fodder for generic valtrex cheap conspiracy theorists, but I'm not so sure.

    What can a person really do though? I guess just staying informed as much as possible, doing your generic valtrex cheap own research, and listening to your body. I also enjoy reading Mark Sisson and generic valtrex cheap Dr. Eades blogs. They have a similar viewpoint as Taubes, but differ on a generic valtrex cheap few different subjects.

  • Megan M. generic xenical forum

    That's a great article, thank you for the link! I hadn't looked at any of Gary Taubes' other work until that, and generic valtrex cheap I agree, he writes eye opening stuff. It's hard to generic valtrex cheap make calls on this stuff because the very nature of his material reminds us that generic valtrex cheap we can't just follow precepts blindly, we have generic valtrex cheap to question and discover for ourselves, and so much of this generic valtrex cheap stuff is near-impossible to pin down for certain without, uh, a generic valtrex cheap lab! And, uh, years of scientific experience...

    The more of this generic valtrex cheap I encounter, the more I am certain how important it generic valtrex cheap is for each of us to know how to take care of ourselves, to generic valtrex cheap make decisions for ourselves, and not foist those decisions on others and generic valtrex cheap assume it will be okay. In many cases, in SO MANY cases, it's simply not okay. And you're right, all we can generic valtrex cheap do is whatever we can do, getting informed however we can, listening to generic valtrex cheap the way our bodies react to the decisions we make, and generic valtrex cheap remembering that it's our responsibility to care for ourselves -- not someone else's.

    I haven't come across Mark Sisson or Dr. Eades, I'm going to check them out!

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