When researcher John Yudkin announced these results in the 1950s, however, he was drowned out by the conventional wisdom. Deeper examination, he says, shows that heart disease and other "diseases of civilization" appear to result from increased consumption of refined carbohydrates: sugar, white flour and white rice. Taubes's eye-opening challenge to widely accepted ideas on nutrition and weight loss is as provocative as was his 2001 NewYork Times Magazine article, "What if It's All a Big Fat Lie?" Taubes (Bad Science), a writer for Science magazine, begins by showing how public health data has been misinterpreted to mark dietary fat and cholesterol as the primary causes of coronary heart disease.
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