Person Details

Birthday: 1956-04-30 14:06:46

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA

Homepage: http://garytaubes.com

Movie Involvements: 8

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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).

Most Famous Work

That Sugar Film
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That Sugar Film

(2014) Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
Fat Fiction
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6

Fat Fiction

(2020) Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author
Fat Head
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7

Fat Head

(2009) Self
Sugar Coated
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7

Sugar Coated

(2015) Self / Author
FAT: A Documentary 2
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7

FAT: A Documentary 2

(2021) Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
The Perfect Human Diet
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6

The Perfect Human Diet

(2012) Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
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8

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

(2016) Self - Scientific Journalist
FAT: A Documentary
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6

FAT: A Documentary

(2019) Self / Journalist / Author

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2021 Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
2020 Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author
2019 Self / Journalist / Author
2016 Self - Scientific Journalist
2015 Self / Author
2014 Himself
Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
2012 Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
2009 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

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