Well, I have finished the Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes. I thought it was brilliant. I am now convinced we are eating too many carbohydrates in general. I don't doubt that fructose has a very particular and important role in obesity, however I feel complex carbohydrates are also a problem.

I found it most interesting to read of the metabolism of adipose tissue and insulin.  It certainly explains the plight of the obese and their inability to stop eating and exercise.  For anybody who has not read the book, being overweight makes you more hungry and have less energy. It is not the other way around. Obese people are not gluttons and sloths!!!!

Gary Taubes seemed to be a most considered reader of the science.  He did not put forward hysterical views or make outlandish recommendations.  As he says at the end of his book, WE NEED SOME GOOD SCIENCE done on this whole topic of carbohydrate restricted diets.  We also need some good science done on the fat restricted diets. 

I do feel he could have spent more time on the role of fructose. He mentioned it briefly.  During the chapters of carbohydrate metabolism he made some interesting remarks about its role in the formation of triglycerides in the fat cels, but did not go into much detail so I was left wondering about the importance of that action.

I would be most interested any any other views.