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  • The Gluten Lie

  • And Other Myths About What You Eat
  • By: Alan Levinovitz PhD
  • Narrated by: Barry Press
  • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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The Gluten Lie

By: Alan Levinovitz PhD
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Gluten. Salt. Sugar. Fat. These are the villains of the American diet - or so a host of doctors and nutritionists would have you believe. But the science is far from settled, and we are racing to eliminate wheat and corn syrup from our diets because we've been lied to. The truth is that almost all of us can put the buns back on our burgers and be just fine.

Remember when butter was the enemy? Now it's good for you. You may have lived through times when the Atkins Diet was good, then bad, and then good again; you may have wondered why all your friends cut down on salt or went Paleo; and you might even be thinking about cutting out wheat products from your own diet.

In this groundbreaking work, Alan Levinovitz, PhD, exposes the myths behind how we come to believe which foods are good and which are bad and points the way to a truly healthful life, free from anxiety about what we eat.

©2015 Alan Levinovitz (P)2015 Tantor

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"A factually accurate and highly entertaining work." (Peter Gibson, MD, Director of Gastroenterology at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University)

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Very informative and entertaining

Filled with great facts that shut down a lot of myths about food.
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A fantastic intro into skeptical thinking

This work is a relief to the lingering anxiety caused by the sheer tidal wave of food/health/diet content in the media, print and online.

The reading style takes an unnecessarily comic/sarcastic tone; which while entertaining to the enlightened, may alienate those who are yet to realise the level of their credulity on such food matters.

The gentle mocking, having being in place for the whole text, makes it harder to realise the final UNpack Diet Plan is a complete hoax. (Excluding the point-by-point review that the print version has doesn't help either)

Still, the book is very much worthy of your attention.

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What a waste of time

Only managed to get half way through this book. What a waste of time reading half of it. And I didn't realise I could get a refund until it was too late.

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Week arguments

I really wanted to take something tangible away from this book. In a nutshell the book goes like this, they were wrong about MSG, they were wrong about fats so therefore we can't believe the sensationalism about sugar and gluten. Then after telling us not to believe what we hear the book goes on to tell us it's plastics that's actually killing us and making us fat, the book does the exact thing it had preached to us for 8 hours not to do and that is, tries to convince us without any evidence that tinfoil and plastics are the real culprit. I actually thought this last chapter was a joke, and the authors way of demonstrating how easily we can be convinced of something without much substantiation - but no! We are to be critical of every other report about our health except his which we are to believe. Very odd

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