Photo: #Russell Stover Candies displays their low carb chocolate sauce at the All Candy Expo trade show June 8, 2004.
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Russell Stover Candies displays their low carb chocolate sauce at the All Candy Expo trade show June 8, 2004. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Favoring fat

Broadcast: Midmorning, 03/04/2008, 10:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/15/2008, 9:06 a.m.

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Despite the advice of doctors and nutrition experts, one science writer suggests that refined carbohydrates are a greater food offender than fat.

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  • Gary Taubes: a science writer for NYTimes magazine and author of "Good Calories, Bad Calories."

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