Richard Rhodes, a Pulitzer Prize winner himself, calls Good Calories, Bad Calories the most important book on diet and health to be published in the past 100 years: "If Taubes were a scientist rather than a gifted, resourceful science journalist, he would deserve and receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine." In this book, the award-winning science writer doesn't mince words about accepted wisdom regarding weight control. In his view, it's all one big fat lie. More specifically, he insists that fat is getting a bad rap; it's refined carbohydrates that are causing our ever-widening waistlines. To prove his point, he notes how the introduction of white flour, sugar, and easily digestible starches a century ago ushered in an age of obesity.