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Taubes, Gary.

Good calories, bad calories: challenging the conventional wisdom on diet, weight control, and disease / Gary Taubes.—1st ed.

p.                                    cm.

“Borzoi book.”

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Low-carbohydrate diet. 2. Reducing diets. 3. Weight loss. 4. Carbohydrates, Refined—Physiological effect. 5. Nutritionally induced diseases. I. Title.

RM237.73.T38 2007                                    613.2'63—dc22                                    2007006794

eISBN: 978-0-307-26794-8

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