Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US

Diet Cults

The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US

2014 • 336 pages

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Sometimes I get on runs of books that just fail to thrill me. I like Matt Fitzgerald's points: humans evolved over millennia to eat basically all food and all fad diets are dumb. This is also a pretty obvious point to anyone who's spent any time thinking about food or metabolism and since I'm a professional metabolist...

I was hoping either for scientific rigor or bystander fascination (e.g. a review of the craziest fad diets of all time.) Instead I got a lot of common sense: people are healthy eating a wide-range of foods in moderation and there's no magic diet mostly stated without citations.

I will say, though, I was grateful to the chapter dedicated to the overhydration cult and the dangers of free water intoxication as that's my personal pet peeve.

Unclear who his target audience is: most people who already think about these things already know what he's saying to be true OR have their heads buried in the sand of their favorite fad diet.

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