Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight
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Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Parenting & Relationships
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Parenting & Relationships
Book Type: Paperback
I chose this book after reading Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, reading Gina Kolata's Rethinking Thin, and watching the DVD Fat Head. I was disappointed.
This book does not live up to its promise. Linda Bacon is a very educated woman. She presented some interesting facts. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to be able to gather them all into a cogent whole. It seems that this book is more to promote her program than to present a rational argument. She is inconsistent. For example, she waves off the Food Pyramid as a construct of a government agency whose mission is to promote large scale agriculture over health, but a few pages later promotes eating by the Pyramid. She also said that its harmful to diet, yet she advocates Michael Pollan's diet principles.
I recommend any of the resources in the first paragraph over this book.
This book does not live up to its promise. Linda Bacon is a very educated woman. She presented some interesting facts. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to be able to gather them all into a cogent whole. It seems that this book is more to promote her program than to present a rational argument. She is inconsistent. For example, she waves off the Food Pyramid as a construct of a government agency whose mission is to promote large scale agriculture over health, but a few pages later promotes eating by the Pyramid. She also said that its harmful to diet, yet she advocates Michael Pollan's diet principles.
I recommend any of the resources in the first paragraph over this book.
