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Chapter 17: Meat or Plants?

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Chapter 19: Following Through

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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

1.1
“Fat Louisa” photograph. Reprinted from
The Pima Indians
, Frank Russell, page 67. Copyright 1908.

5.1
Steatopygia photograph. Reprinted from
The Races of Man
, J. Deniker, page 94. Copyright 1900.

5.2
Lean and obese identical twins photographs. Reprinted from
Obesity and Leanness
, Hugo R. Rony, page 84 and 85. Copyright 1940.

5.3
Aberdeen Angus photograph. Courtesy of Genus ABS.

5.4
Jersey cow photograph. By Maggie Murphy, courtesy of Agri-Graphics Ltd.

5.5
Woman with progressive lipodystrophy photograph. Reprinted from
Obesity and Leanness
, Hugo R. Rony, page 71. Copyright 1940.

5.6
HIV-related progressive lipodystrophy photographs. Mauss, S. “Lipodystrophy, Metabolic Disorders and Cardiovascular Risk-Complications of Antiretroviral Therapy.”
European Pharmacotherapy
2003, Touch Briefings. © Touch Briefings. Reprinted with permission.

9.1
The effects of estrogen on LPL illustration. By Ellen Rogers.

9.2
Author’s son, August 2007 and August 2010 photographs. By Larry Lederman.

9.3
Zucker rat photograph. Courtesy of Charles River Laboratories.

11.1
Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Calvin and Hobbes © 1986 Watterson. Reprinted by permission of Universal Uclick. All rights reserved.

11.2
Fatty acid/tryglyceride illustration. By Ellen Rogers.

11.3
Effects of insulin on adipose tissue photograph. Courtesy of Informa Healthcare Communications. Reprinted from
Endocrinology: An Integrated Approach
, Stephen Nussey and Saffron Whitehead, page 31. Copyright 2001.

A Note About the Author

Gary Taubes is the author of
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
. He is a contributing correspondent for
Science
magazine, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation investigator in health policy research at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. His articles about science, medicine, and health have appeared in
Discover, The Atlantic
, and
The New York Times Magazine
, among other publications. He has won three Science-in-Society Journalism Awards, given by the National Association of Science Writers—the only print journalist so recognized—as well as awards from the Pan American Health Organization, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Physical Society. His writing was selected for
The Best American Science Writing 2002, The Best of the Best of American Science Writing
, and
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000
and
2003
. He is also the author of
Bad Science
and
Nobel Dreams
. He was educated at Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two sons.

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