Book description
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.
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.
