“I believe we could reduce our current usage of psychotropic drugs by 98% and at the same time improve people’s mental health and survival (see Chapter 14),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

“The most important reason for the current drug disaster it is that leading psychiatrists have allowed the drug industry to corrupt their academic discipline and themselves.”

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“We have repeated the same mistakes with the SSRIs that we made with benzodiazepines, and before them with barbiturates,” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

“We have created a huge epidemic of drug overuse with just as many drug addicts on SSRIs as on benzodiazepines (see Chapter 12).”

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“[Double-blind studies] have rather consistently shown that it is the psychiatrists that think their drugs are effective, not the patients (see Chapter 3),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“Cochrane reviews have shown that it is doubtful whether antidepressants are effective for depression (see Chapter 3) and whether antipsychotics are effective for schizophrenia (see Chapter 6),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“The facts are that SSRI’s kill one of 28 people above 65 years of age treated for one year; that half of the patients get sexual side effects; and that half of the patients have difficulty stopping antidepressants because they become dependent on them (see Chapter 3),” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“Furthermore, members of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry explained in Lancet Psychiatry that British withdrawal-support charities report alarming numbers of people suffering disabling symptoms for multiple years following withdrawal from antidepressants,” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 1 Introduction of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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“A 1993 study in the United States by the Rand Corporation showed that: Over half the physicians wrote prescriptions after discussing depression with patients for three minutes or less,” writes Prof. Peter C. Gotzsche, MD in Chapter 2 What does it mean to be mentally ill? of his excellent book Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial.

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In his new new book Good Calories Bad Calories, Gary Taubes writes that foods to be avoided as advocated by low-carbohydrate advocates include:

1. Bread, and everything else made with flour


2. Cereals, including breakfast cereals and milk puddings


3. Potatoes and all other white root vegetables


4. Foods containing much sugar


5. All sweets

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In his new new book Good Calories Bad Calories, Gary Taubes writes that foods that you can eat as much as you want of as advocated by low-carbohydrate advocates include:

1. Meat, fish, birds


2. All green vegetables


3. Eggs, dried or fresh


4. Cheese


5. Fruit, if unsweetened or sweetened with saccharin, except bananas and grapes

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"Good Calories... are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. "These foods can be eaten without restraint. [The include] meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables," the press release for the book notes.

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"Bad Calories... are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic disease--all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. "[These foods include] bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer," the press release for the book notes.

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"Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Carbohydrates do [cause heart disease], because of their effect on the hormone insulin," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. "The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being." Read the entire article | Email this article

"Sugars--sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specifically--are particularly harmful.," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. ;The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver." Read the entire article | Email this article

"Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating and not sedentary behavior," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Read the entire article | Email this article

"We get fat because of an imbalance--a disequilibrium--in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. "More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance." Read the entire article | Email this article

"Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. "When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel." Read the entire article | Email this article

"By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. "By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity." Read the entire article | Email this article

"The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be," according to the new book "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. Read the entire article | Email this article