Gary Taubes
Known for: Acting
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
Film
That Sugar Film
Self / Investigative Science Journalist / Author, Why We Get Fat
2014
Film
Sugar Coated
Self - Author
2015
Film
Fat Head
Self
2009
Film
FAT: A Documentary
Self - Journalist / Author
2019
Film
Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
Self - Scientific Journalist
2016
Film
Fat Fiction
Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
2020
Film
The Cholesterol Code
Self
2026
Film
FAT: A Documentary 2
Self / Investigative Journalist / Author / NuSI
2021
Film
The Perfect Human Diet
Self / Science Journalist / Author, Good Calories Bad Calories
2012
Film
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
Himself
2014