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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I was a little frustrated by this book. I love Matt Fitzgerald's books on endurance sport, so I was looking forward to reading this. I think I'm glad I did read it, because some of his comments on the psychology of eating are extraordinarily insightful. Unfortunately, however, the way he writes about the history of food in the Americas is unintentionally offensive to Native Americans, and his language is not as gender-inclusive as I'd like. As you might expect from an endurance athlete, he is also not fat-positive. The final chapter claims to provide an easier, simpler way of eating in accordance with official dietary guidelines than the MyPlate method, but to me it actually seems more complicated and in some respects more restrictive. This is ironic given that Fitzgerald spends most of the book emphasising that food restrictions are generally a bad idea unless strictly necessary for medical reasons. In other aspects, his method is less restrictive, but of course that means his method isn't as compliant with guidelines as it seems. If what attracts you to this book is the psychology and the debunking of fad diets, go ahead and read it (but maybe skip the section on the Lewis and Clark expedition). If you're more interested in figuring out an eating plan that will help works for you, and you don't care about the details of the official guidelines, then I'd recommend the eating plan chapters of Fitzgerald's Racing Weight over this book (but only if the fat phobia will not be triggering). If you you do want to follow official guidelines exactly, the MyPlate website is still the best resource.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
I was a little frustrated by this book. I love Matt Fitzgerald's books on endurance sport, so I was looking forward to reading this. I think I'm glad I did read it, because some of his comments on the psychology of eating are extraordinarily insightful. Unfortunately, however, the way he writes about the history of food in the Americas is unintentionally offensive to Native Americans, and his language is not as gender-inclusive as I'd like. As you might expect from an endurance athlete, he is also not fat-positive. The final chapter claims to provide an easier, simpler way of eating in accordance with official dietary guidelines than the MyPlate method, but to me it actually seems more complicated and in some respects more restrictive. This is ironic given that Fitzgerald spends most of the book emphasising that food restrictions are generally a bad idea unless strictly necessary for medical reasons. In other aspects, his method is less restrictive, but of course that means his method isn't as compliant with guidelines as it seems. If what attracts you to this book is the psychology and the debunking of fad diets, go ahead and read it (but maybe skip the section on the Lewis and Clark expedition). If you're more interested in figuring out an eating plan that will help works for you, and you don't care about the details of the official guidelines, then I'd recommend the eating plan chapters of Fitzgerald's Racing Weight over this book (but only if the fat phobia will not be triggering). If you you do want to follow official guidelines exactly, the MyPlate website is still the best resource.