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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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Diet Cults

By: Matt Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
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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.

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©2014 Matt Fitzgerald (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks
Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Weight Loss & Weight Control Nutrition Healthy Diet Low Carb Health Physical Exercise Habits
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Would you listen to Diet Cults again? Why?

Yes, I have listened twice already

What did you like best about this story?

It reminds the listener to think critically about the information we are flooded with about food

What about Stephen R. Thorne’s performance did you like?

He is easy to listen to and very clear

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Yes

Excellent listen

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This book flowed so well, the information is so relevant to anyone's life. A must read if you've ever struggled with weight.

WOW...!!

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Very thorough explanation of how to be healthy without being on a gas diet.

Great information

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He's not wrong but It's just a bit too judgemental and a little generalized... people legitimately suffer from conditions that kinda makes fun of... good overview of nutrition if you don't have much background on the topic.

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