Diet cults the surprising fallacy at the core of nutrition fads and a guide to healthy eating for the rest of us

From the raw food movement to Atkins, an ever-increasing number of health and weight-loss diets are engaged in an overheated struggle for new converts. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than 12,000 years old are the enemy. Vegans demonize animal foods. Then there are the low-fat proph...

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Main Author: Fitzgerald, Matt (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2014.
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition May 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Forbidden fruit
  • 100 foods to eat before you die
  • Homo coquus
  • The caveman of Orange County
  • The suck-it-up diet
  • It's a bird! It's a plane! It's superfood!
  • Consider the potato
  • Eat bad, look good
  • Coffee, chocolate, and wine
  • Sugar water
  • Starve or die
  • Scapegluten
  • The protein club
  • What's your poison?
  • Agnostic healthy eating.