What Taubes brings up that weight is ultimately about carbohydrates. Taubes finds examples of weight gain throughout history that are different from the way we gain weight in today’s time. Taubes believes and finds that there are different ways and different reasons to gain weight.
He looks into what Williams and Woods, who are are researchers who studied weight gain in the book. They found that even runners gain weight and have to compensate that weight by running further and further. Taubes says that runners wanting to stay fit have to run marathons five days a week to stay fit; which sounds crazy, and it is. So Taubes says that the calorie intake and output is not true.
Taubes’ next topic of weight gain is cows. Taubes talks about the
