Good Calories, Bad Calories

A scathing review of the state of nutritive science today. Taubes blasts a discipline rife with confirmation bias, yes-men (and women) and folks devoted to conventional thinking and for not paying heed to contradictory evidence. Science is imperfect, but the science of nutrition and diet is especially imperfect... and influenced by a healthy dose of politics. The sad part is that what we teach our children, and what is recommended to the public at large, is based on flimsy hypothesis and is leading to a fat, sick, diabetic, heart disease ridden populous with no end in sight.

I dropped the rating by one star simply because I think the editing needed to tighten the book up. It is very dense reading and will turn away folks not ready for the weight of the material. That being said, the rhetoric is damming, and almost needs this much material to ensure the point is made.

Excellent. And mostly satiating. :)