quotes by Gary Taubes

"[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis."
— Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories)

"The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century"
— Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories)