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Diet Cults
- The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
From the national best-selling author of Racing Weight, Matt Fitzgerald exposes the irrationality, half-truths, and downright impossibility of a "single right way" to eat and reveals how to develop rational, healthy eating habits.
From "the Four-Hour Body" to "Atkins," there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the "one true way" to eat for maximum health. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than 12,000 years old are the enemy. Low-carb gurus demonize carbs, and then there are the low-fat prophets. But they agree on one thing: There is only one true way to eat for maximum health. The first clue that this is a fallacy is the sheer variety of diets advocated. Indeed, while all of these competing views claim to be backed by science, a good look at actual nutritional science suggests it is impossible to identify a single best way to eat. Fitzgerald advocates an agnostic, rational approach to eating habits based on one's own habits, lifestyle, and genetics and body type. Many professional athletes already practice this "Good Enough" diet, and now we can too—and ditch the brainwashing of these diet cults for good.
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- Darren - UK
- 11-12-14
Simply fantastic.
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insightful informative and good humoured
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This is us excellent book exploring the psychology around food as well as the science and dogma. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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- John Gould
- 26-04-15
would definitely recommend this book.
very good as a whole. loved the comparison with religions and the open mindness. I would advise to offer this to a friend.
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- JB
- 21-06-23
Speaks the truth, very refreshing
Very enjoyable and informative. Using facts and science to reveal the truth about diets. Worth a listen.
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- Ian Wallace
- 02-03-23
enjoyable insite
interesting book. was good the author gave background history of we're diets started from. broke each diet down... it felt the author was pro fasting, as he dint really brake that down with negatives. and there are many he could have used.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-11-22
Thank you
Common sense and science instead of hype and snake oil.
Interesting background stories and research put together well.
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- L
- 05-03-15
not bad. not great
narrator was good. content was not to bad. could of been more scientific. I felt allot of the book was padding to get to the final three chapters. only a few instating points made earlier in the book with human adaptability.
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- AlexIsOnAmazon
- 22-04-22
You've already read this too many times
I was barely halfway through the first chapter when I began to roll my eyes. I had sincerely hoped for a nuanced and interesting deepdive into the weightloss/wellness/diet industry and its origins, iterations and future. No such luck.
Just another book, like many before and after it, that doesn't do any heavy lifting of actually exploring "diet cults" in a meaningful way and instead serves as yet another manual on how to eat according to the authors opinion. A recurring theme seems to be "We don't know this for sure, but it seems a safe bet that....".
Take a quick look at the PDF which comes with the book if you want a condensed version of the authors views on food: Fruit and veg good. Junk bad. Drinking beer/wine every day of the week is fine(?).
Definitely wouldn't recommend this book if you are a person with/who has a history of disordered eating or who is working to build a positive relationship with food and/or your body, the book wastes no time in jumping straight into the same tired fatphobic ideas we've seen too many times before.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-10-22
Offensive
I was astonished about some of the views expressed by the author in this book. In the first chapter I was shocked to hear the author speak with distain about the group he dubbed fat-salt-sweet who "pay a heavy price for their unrestrained pleasure eating...getting fat, looking terrible, being woefully out of shape, aging quickly, becoming diabetic, developing heart disease, and dying young"
He went on to say in the 2nd chapter "By no means am I suggesting that human beings can eat whatever they please without suffering negative heath consequences....you can see this for yourself by peeking inside your local McDonalds during the noon rush and observing the shapes and sizes of the people eating there. "
At that point I switched the book off having no desire to listen to any more of his awful and offensive views!
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- Anonymous User
- 28-03-22
Unnecessarily offensive
I couldn't even finish chapter one before turning this off. There are so many assertions and (as the author admits) speculations linking health and weight/body type that are not supported by science, including a lot of vulgar opinions about fat people that are not necessary in a book about eating. Within the first 9 minutes the author gives this opinion: "pleasure eating leads to woeful consequences such as getting fat, looking terrible.... and dying young." They then proceed to use this description as something other types of eaters should fear. I imagine this book would be interesting minus the author's outdated opinions but I don't want to read on to find out. I'm really disappointed, will be returning this title ASAP.
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