
Diet Cults
The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us
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Narrated by:
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Stephen R. Thorne
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By:
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Matt Fitzgerald
About this listen
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.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2014 Matt Fitzgerald (P)2014 Blackstone AudiobooksIf you could sum up Diet Cults in three words, what would they be?
insightful informative and good humouredAny additional comments?
This is us excellent book exploring the psychology around food as well as the science and dogma. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.Simply fantastic.
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would definitely recommend this book.
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Speaks the truth, very refreshing
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enjoyable insite
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Interesting background stories and research put together well.
Thank you
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not bad. not great
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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.
Performance is fine.
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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!
Offensive
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Unnecessarily offensive
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