| ...easily the most important book on diet and health to be published in the past one hundred years. It is clear, fast-paced and exciting to read, rigorous, authoritative... If Taubes were a scientist rather than a gifted, resourceful science journalist, he would deserve and receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine
Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Nutrition and obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic, that diabetes rates have soared and the incidence of heart disease has not declined despite the fact that society is more diet and health aware today than generations ago.
The Diet Delusion is an in-depth, scientific, groundbreaking examination of what actually happens in your body as a result of what you eat, rather than what the diet industry might have you believe happens and is essential reading for anyone trying to decide which diet - low-fat or low-carbohydrate - is truly the healthy diet.
For years we have been deluded by the dieting industry. Now it's time to find out the truth.
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| A brave and bold science journalist . . . Taubes does not bow to the current fashion for narrative nonfiction, instead building his argument case by case . . . much of what Taubes relates will be eye-opening
New York Times Book Review
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| A challenge to conventional wisdom
Sunday Business Post
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| America's most controversial science writer
Sunday Telegraph
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| Debunks the myths...and looks at what actually happens in your body when you eat
Woman's Own
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| Fascinating . . . Mr Taubes has a gift for turning complex scientific principles into engaging narrative
Wall Street Journal
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| Read this, and you’ll be astonished at the shaky foundations of dietary medicine and health advice... First off, I was struck by how little science does know, what we take for established fact if often partial truth at best. Conjectures are, apparently, made on imperfect research… compelling reading
Sue Baker, Publishing News
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| Scholarly yet readable deconstuction of dieting...the most comprehensive book on the subject
Good Book Guide
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| Taubes... tackles the subject with the seriousness and scientific insight it deserves, building a devastating case against the low-fat, high-carb way of life endorsed by so many nutrition experts in recent years. With diabetes and heart disease at stake as well as obesity, those 'experts' owe us an abject apology
Barbara Ehrenreich, prominent American writer and
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| This book is a most important contribution to Mankind – really an historic book
Jeremy Stone, longtime president, The American Fed
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| This informative book could challenge the way you think about food...in-depth but interesting
Health and Fitness
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ISBN: 0091924286
Publication date: 01/01/2009 • 640 pages • Demy Octavo • EAN: 9780091924287 |
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