
Gary Taubes
Biography
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of The case for keto: rethinking weight control and the science and practice of low-carb/high-fat eating (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. Taubes is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award, which he won in 1996, 1999 and 2001. (He is the first print journalist to win this award three times.) Taubes graduated from Harvard College in 1977 with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University (1978) and in journalism from Columbia University (1981).
Filmography

The Cholesterol Code
2026
as Self

FAT: A Documentary 2
2021
as Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI

Fat Fiction
2020
as Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author

FAT: A Documentary
2019
as Self - Journalist / Author

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
2016
as Self - Scientific Journalist

Sugar Coated
2015
as Self - Author

Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
2014
as Himself

That Sugar Film
2014
as Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat

The Perfect Human Diet
2012
as Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories

Fat Head
2009
as Self