On this page we have pulled together the references listed in the print version of “Why We Get Fat and Sick” for our audiobook users.
Chapter 1: Stop Counting Calories
Gary Taubes- Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and an Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity
Gary Taubes- “Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It”
Chapter 2: Stop Eating Added Sugar
Gary Taubes- “The Case Against Sugar” (Youtube Video)
Gary Taubes- “The Case Against Sugar” (Book)
Robert Lustig, MD- “Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer” (YouTube Presentation)
Ada Bjarnadottir, MS, RDN- “The 56 Most Common Names for Sugar (Some Are Tricky)”
Robert Lustig, MD- “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine” https://amzn.to/3zBS8ua
List of other names for sugar referenced in Chapter 2:
High fructose corn syrup
Agave nectar
Beet sugar
Blackstrap molasses
Brown sugar
Buttered syrup
Cane juice crystals
Cane sugar
Caramel
Carob syrup
Castor sugar
Coconut sugar
Confectionery (powdered) sugar
Date sugar
Demerara sugar
Florida crystals
Fruit juice
Fruit juice concentrate
Golden sugar
Golden syrup
Grape sugar
Honey
Icing sugar
Invert sugar
Maple syrup
Molasses
Muscovado sugar
Panela sugar
Rapadura
Raw sugar
Refiner's syrup
Sorghum Syrup
Sucanat
Treacle sugar
Turbinado sugar
Yellow sugar
Chapter 3: Stop Processed Grains
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025
Chris Knobbe, MD- 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?’
Robert Lustig, MD- “Metabolical: The Lure and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine”
Chapter 4: Stop Seed Oils
“No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats”, August 20, 2019 (No author listed)
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/no-need-to-avoid-healthy-omega-6-fats
Chris Knobbe, MD- 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?
Nina Teicholz- “The Big Fat Surprise”
Pradip Jamnadas, MD “The Fat Lies”
Chapter 5: Stop Artificial Sweeteners
Doron Sher, MBBS - 'Artificial Sweeteners'
JJ Medicine- "Absorption and Metabolism of Sugar Substitutes (Artificial Sweeteners) | Aspartame, Sucralose, Etc." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCBcsNaep-g
Dr. Robert Lustig- “Metabolical: The Lure and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine”
Chapter 6: Stop the Processed Food
Gary Taubes- “The Case Against Sugar”
Robert Lustig, MD- “Metabolical: The Lure and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine”
Terry Wahls, MD- “The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles”
Chapter 7: Understanding Carbohydrates
Feng-Yuan Liu, APD- “LCHF: From Theory to Practice”
Gary Fetke, MD- “Nutrition and Inflammation”
Chapter 8: Understanding Insulin
Gary Taubes- “Why We Get Fat: "Adiposity 101 and an Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity"
Jason Fung, MD- “A New Paradigm of Insulin Resistance”
Jason Fung, MD- “The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally”
Chapter 9: So how do I lose weight?
Gary Taubes- "The Case for Keto"
Jason Fung, MD- “Therapeutic Fasting- Solving the Two-Compartment Problem”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk&list=PLKcKV-pIYdb8lcQAhOsHuLipHOWergs_2&index=3&t=3s
Jason Fung, MD- “The Obesity Code”
Pradip Jamnadas, MD- “Fasting for Survival Lecture”
Chapter 10: Disease of Modern Civilization
Jason Fung, MD- “Top Autophagy Benefits (Weight Loss)”
Jason Fung, MD- “A New Paradigm of Insulin Resistance”
Robert Lustig, MD- “Sugar, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cancer”
Terry Wahls, MD- “Minding Your Mitochondria”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc&list=PLKcKV-pIYdb8lcQAhOsHuLipHOWergs_2&index=7
Terry Wahls, MD- “The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles”