The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us
by Matt Fitzgerald
appears in Nutrition, Food, and Hobbies.
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. Lowcarb gurus demonize carbs, then there are the lowfat prophets...
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