Dr. Oz is about to binge on pork rinds.

I don't believe Gary Taubes follows his own advice. I believe he is a closet macrobiotic who binges on rice cakes and miso soup.

Maybe Oz will post the numbers now that he himself is eating like a "hunter gather." I noticed on the cover of this month's First for Women magazine that Oz is touting the blood type diet! Inside, he claims that he feels best when eating in accordance with his O blood type according to Peter D'Adamo's plan which would be mainly meat eating hunter gatherer. The example of an ideal meal for type O was steak and veggies. Oz goes on to say that some people can handle lots of carbohydrate but he can't. What the??? What about that glorious view of rice and lentils stuck in his colon that he treated the audience to during the follow-up broadcast of his colonoscopy? (He didn't follow the prep instructions and the doc doing the colonoscopy was greeted by a colon carb load during Oz's exam.) His newfound confidence in this blood type diet stuff was purportedly due to a Finnish study showing differences in gut bacteria that make some better able to tolerate carbs etc than others. No reference for this purported study.

Total Cholesterol 204!?!? GET THIS MAN A STATIN.

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It seems depressing that Taubes didn't actually accept Oz's challenge. But then again (after knowing about the editing), they probably would have made the numbers look bad no matter what they were. All considered, I think he still made the right choice.

I wonder what Taubes' supporters might have said if his total cholesterol and LDL were very high. Maybe then start to apply for the "lipid hypothesis is a myth" argument. It is funny to see that many (not all) people that dismiss the cholesterol hypothesis for bashing low fat dietary dogma are all over the web showing the "extraordinary" blood test results.

Re: CO2 and glucose oxidation

Glucose oxidation via glycolysis produces 2CO2, plus 4CO2 from the Krebs Cycle as a by-product. It is not that carbohydrates have more oxygen, it is the metabolic pathway the responsible for increased respiratory exchange ratio for glucose oxidation.

i dont think gary was ever trying to give out "advice." i think gary just wants to spread the truth about what is healthy and what isnt since we are fed so much misinformation day in and day out. i think everyone, including gary, can take the information and do WHATEVER they want with it - as long as it is true information, that is all that really matters.

If someone were asked to take a test for something like steroids, but they refused and came back weeks later with their own test, then they'd be considered as very suspicious.

But when Taubes does just that, he gets praised.

The most likely explanation is that he was worried about losing book sales, and so he fasted heavily and then presented his figures. Then he made up some cockamamie excuses. Instead of defending his position, he chickens out and then finagles.

After all, pharma profits and agribusiness profits are tainted and lead to corruption, but book author profits are pure and Gary only does what he does for the good of the people.

Good on Gary for posting this!

I will say that my numbers were 'better' than his when I ate the SAD. I think genetics do have a lot of influence with this one.

That's funny, his numbers are all very similar to mine except that my LDL-C was almost double his. Given what he said he eats every day on that show, I would have expected higher LDL. Does he have a day's worth of food posted anywhere?

"burning fat also produces less CO2 than burning carbohydrate because fats are poor in oxygen compared to carbs." is demonstrably incorrect.

The oxygen content of sucrose for example is entirely matched by the hydrogen content C12H22O11 + 12 O2 -> 12 CO2 + 11 H2O with no opportunity for the oxygen in the molecule to contribute to the carbon oxidation

The respiratory exchange ratio CO2 produced / O2 consumed is lowest for fat (0.707) and highest for carbs (1.0).

Taubes most likely has low CO2 due to respiratory compensation for blood ketones - less CO2 in blood to give less acidic H2CO3 to maintain blood pH in presence of acidic ketone bodies.

so Anti the Antis....no matter what the readings were you'd win? If they were bad then you win...if they're good then they're rigged? How convenient. Must be fun living in your world.

I feel justified in not buying his books now, because his blood numbers match mine, though my HDL is somewhat higher and my LDL may be a little fluffier. I eat lots of meat and fat for sure, but unlike Gary I exercise and eat a lot of so-called bad calories.

Edit: I followed Rose's direction and went in search of evidence for Taubes the runner. I found none, but did find a tidbit by him on a 68 year old man who had gained 30 pounds by running 80,000 miles. So I'll assume that he doesn't have a high opinion of that activity anyway. Looking at his bloodwork as an example of a sedentary low carb dieter I'd say it's decent, though adding exercise would improve his TG, HDL and fasting glucose numbers.