The Big Fat Surprise

This book, like the ones from Taubes, is going to go down as a very important work. It taught me how everything we have been taught about diet is completely backwards. She convinced me to stop getting skim or 2% milk for my family and stick to full-fat everything. She even ended chapters with cliffhangers that leave you wanting to keep going. She did a great job researching and writing this book, I recommend it to everyone.

What is the point of food? Health? Energy? Fitness? Aesthetics?

I'm biased towards fat because it's damn tasty. I think the emphasis on animal products might be a little overblown but the weakness of nutritional science in the face of strong personalities and industry was horrifying. (It seems like there are so many contributing factors to the “Western diseases” of heart attacks, diabetes, etc - I had misgivings about pointing fingers elsewhere when “common sense” was so, not.)