Seth’s blog
Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc.
Recent Posts
Pages
Categories
- Academic Horror Story (8)
- acne (6)
- art (4)
- Assorted Links (15)
- astonishment (2)
- autism (4)
- Beijing (13)
- blogs (49)
- books (72)
- Calorie Learning (9)
- China (14)
- data analysis (2)
- education (59)
- Everyday Humor (5)
- exercise (13)
- food (11)
- general (172)
- How Things Begin (21)
- human evolution (61)
- human nature (4)
- ignorance (6)
- interviews (9)
- Jane Jacobs (43)
- jobbook.org (2)
- labors of love (3)
- magazines (17)
- Modern Veblen (13)
- mood disorders (4)
- music (2)
- My Theory of Human Evolution directory (1)
- nutrition (117)
- omega-3 (125)
- Omega-3 directory (1)
- painfully brilliant (1)
- procrastination (7)
- scientific method (102)
- self-congratulation (9)
- self-experimentation (266)
- Shangri-La Diet (163)
- sleep (19)
- sunlight & sleep (8)
- toxicology (2)
- travel (1)
- Tsinghua University (2)
- Twilight of Expertise (15)
- Twilight of Expertise directory (1)
- Weston Price (1)
- Why Did I Sleep So Well? Directory (1)
Archives
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
January 6th, 2008 at 2:42 am
[…] Interview with Gary Taubes (directory) […]
January 7th, 2008 at 3:34 am
[…] Interview with Gary Taubes (directory) […]
January 10th, 2008 at 3:24 am
[…] Interview with Gary Taubes (directory) […]
January 11th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
[…] Interview with Gary Taubes (directory) […]
March 19th, 2008 at 5:00 am
[…] Here’s something to keep you entertained and well-read for the day: Gary Taubes Interview. It’s 14 parts and is some of the same stuff from Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s largely a very conversational skimming of what’s in the book. […]
March 19th, 2008 at 5:07 am
[…] Here’s something to keep you entertained and well-read for the day: Gary Taubes Interview. It’s 14 parts and is some of the same stuff from Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s largely a very conversational skimming of what’s in the book. […]
March 25th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I think there is a transcription error in this section of the interview.
I think there are two separate incidences far down in the interview where insulin-resistant should really be insulin-sensitive. I noted them below in these:
“TAUBES What I ask when I talk with these people. What I say is: Look at the regulation of fat tissue. The question is, how can you lose weight, or gain it — how can you gain weight without either increasing insulin secretion, or increasing the relative insulin sensitivity of the fat tissue to the muscle tissue. Basically, the way we work, at least if you believe the biology that I describe, is that as we secrete insulin in response to the carbohydrates we consume and the insulin works, among other things, to facilitate the movement of glucose into the cells of your muscles and other lean tissues. But blood sugar is kind of toxic, so your muscle tissue doesn’t want the insulin pushing all this blood sugar in, and it becomes insulin resistant. Your fat tissue now remains , because your body doesn’t like to waste fuel. So if you eat a high-carb diet, your lean tissue takes up some of the glucose for fuel, and the rest gets dumped in your fat tissue, and your fat tissue remains for a long time — far longer. Because once your fat tissue becomes insulin resistant, then you just become diabetic; you have no place to put the glucose. You just pee it out. That’s the last resort, because your body doesn’t want to waste fuel.”
March 26th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Thanks, Anna