Nothing is more frustrating than following all the right steps, sticking to your good eating and exercise habits, getting on the scale and seeing absolutely no drop. Or worse, you've gained.

But what if they were wrong? You know, all those rules your mother or father instilled into your young mind about staying away from cheese and butter, eating low-fat and limiting red meat. What if the government's famous food pyramid was actually based on incomplete data, that when actually looked at closely, contradicts their statements?

"Good Calories, Bad Calories," isn't perfect, nor is it a one-stop-guide to weight loss. What it does, however, is bring to light facts that have been long buried. Experiments and hypothesis's from the early 1900s to today, scientists who were ridiculed because what their experiments proved the conventional information taught to the public were flawed. When there's a lot of money backing up this incorrect information, those some associations aren't suddenly going to turn around and embrace the new wisdom and science. They'll do everything they can to discredit the experiments, the scientists, the trials, those who were studied.

Of course, we go on, eating as much refined-carbohydrates as we want because high-carb diets were safe and that's what we're continually being told.

If you want to know the truth about weight gain, why we can't lose weight and obesity, look at the science. That's where the truth is.

Dr. Gary Taubes gives you the facts, from the myths that created the fat-cholesterol hypothesis, how it became so powerful both in the public and scientific communities, but then he explains the basic physiological science, including the important role insulin plays on weight gain by prohibiting the breakdown of fat in our adipose tissues (and more, oh believe me, there's much more).

There's a lot of science here, but Dr. Taubes explains it in a way the non-researcher can follow. Truthfully, the physiological science simply makes sense.

Regardless, it's your decision to read this book, and further, it's your decision whether or not to believe it. But I'm someone who likes to understand the details and why things happen the way they do. Clearly, if the current mode of eat less fat, eat less calories, and exercise more isn't working, there's a reason for it. I'd like to know what that is rather than stumble along, continually following on blind faith alone.

I'd like some answers.