deleted by user For anybody that doesn't know Gary Taubes, he promotes "an alternative form of weight loss" that is prefaced by the belief that CICO is false. I agree with his points on shifting away from carbohydrates, but his comments about calorie restriction not working are insane. One of the often cited studies from his power point presentation, https://youtu.be/qEuIlQONcHw?t=7m38s , is from Trinidad. And it claims, quite speciously, that 1/3 of women in Trinidad are overweight, despite eating less than the amount of food that the FAO says they need to survive. It states that they are eating less than 2000 calories a day.  The problem is that this doesn't seem to add up.  I can't find the actual study anywhere, but I have been able to infer the daily calorie intake from other published sources.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23286774 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake According to these studies, at about that time they were actually taking in over 2300 calories a day. This is enough to make 1/3 of women fat.  I suspect that a large amount of his "research" falls apart when viewed close up, but the fat acceptance crowd routinely touts this crap as though its gospel.  Thoughts?