This is part journalism, part dissertation. Taubes systematically deconstructs the popular "wisdom" of the last 60-70 years in nutrition research and confirms what many people already know: starches and sweets make you fat, not fat. Just being seen reading this book was enough to make people confront me. "That's stupid. Everybody knows carbs give you energy." "Fats make you fat, that's just how it is." And then I got to remind them that I didn't lose almost 200 pounds by eating low fat. If more people read this book, there would be no "obesity epidemic" to worry about.