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Why We Get Fat is a definitive and essential guide on weight management and diet control by Gary Taubes, bestselling author of Good Calories, Bad Calories. Summary of the Book Drawing on and elaborating his critical work, Good Calories and Bad Calories, Gary Taubes discusses the puzzling question of what is making us fat and how do we manage our weight? The author vehemently discards the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat from the last century. He provides scientifically proven and logical answers to intriguing questions like - what role does genetics and exercise play on our weight? And how do we watch our diet? He writes about the kinds of food we should eat and the ones we should completely avoid and provides explanations to why some people are fat and others thin? Convincing, reasonable and very straightforward, Why We Get Fat will make for an engaging and informative read for those looking to manage their nutrition and weight. About Gary Taubes Gary Taubes is an American author. Born in Rochester, he completed his BS in Applied Physics from Harvard University and MS in Aerospace Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982 and since then has been writing numerous articles for the magazine. Some of the books authored by him include Nobel Dreams, Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion, and Good Calories, Bad Calories. He was honored with the Science in Society Journalism Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 1996-97.