The Diet Delusion
Oct 2008 · Random House
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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.
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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7 November 2012
One of the most important and well researched books on the science of nutrition ever written. It exposes some really appalling science by researchers who were not true to scientific principles, In a science where published results can literally have life or death consequences, some very influential scientists came up with hypotheses that were so precious and compelling to them, they ignored correct procedure and tried to prove they were right rather than using rigorous scientific testing. Any positive evidence no matter how tenuous was included, and anything that disagreed with their hypotheses was excluded as irrelevant. Once the politicians were on board the band wagon, no messy facts were allowed to stand in the way of a bad theory. The book exposes a belief system based not on fact, but something that is 'neat, plausible and wrong'. Is Taubes Controversial? Certainly. Are his conclusions correct? His arguments are compelling and well founded. The proverb 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions' describes the state of nutritional 'science' and government advice today. It's a shame that with so many vested interests at stake this book is falling on such deaf ears!
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16 November 2011
Great info, worth the read.
About the author
Gary Taubes is a journalist and author whose books on controversial science include Nobel Dreams and Bad Science, a New York Times notable book of the year. He is the only journalist to have won the National Association of Science Writer's prestigious Science-in-Society award three times.
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