Gary Taubes on eating to satiety rather than counting calories: recommends

Gary Taubes says the practical answer to obesity is not to eat less but to eat the right foods until satisfied. In the epilogue of Why We Get Fat, he presents eating to satiety — on a carbohydrate-restricted diet — as the actionable takeaway from his reading of the science.

His stated reasoning: hunger, he says, is a symptom of fat-storage dysregulation, not the cause of fat gain. Because he believes the hormonal signals governing fat accumulation are what matter, he argues that simply eating less while leaving the underlying diet unchanged fights the body’s own regulation of appetite rather than fixing it.

This page reports Taubes’s position as he states it; it is not medical advice.

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