About

Known credits:
9
Birthday:
1956-04-30
Place of birth:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Gary Taubes

Overview

Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The case for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).

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Acting

2021 FAT: A Documentary 2 Actor Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI 59
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2020 Fat Fiction Actor Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author 59
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2019 FAT: A Documentary Actor Self - Journalist / Author 59
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2016 Cholesterol: The Great Bluff Actor Self - Scientific Journalist 59
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2015 Sugar Coated Actor Self - Author 59
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2014 Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat Actor Himself 59
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2014 That Sugar Film Actor Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat 61
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2012 The Perfect Human Diet Actor Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories 59
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2009 Fat Head Actor Self 59
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