Salt Sugar Fat opens up with the secret Pillsbury meeting in 1999 where the heads of our largest food companies came together to discuss the budding obesity epidemic. The outcome was this: do nothing. We have all got a lot fatter since then…
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This is a great diet book. It was released in 1992, as an updated version to the 1972 original, and can easily be read today. The body hasn’t changed that much. The focus not only on weight loss but also weight maintenance, which is often forgotten…
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Science journalist Gary Taubes makes a convincing case for why you should eat fewer carbs and more fat in this brick-sized book on 20th-century nutrition. Whereas I can’t verify his 70 pages of sources he makes so much sense that I believe him…
There are oysters, and then there are oysters. Dave develops a taste for belons and fine wine, which turns him into a nocturnal predator. With time the combination stops working, and the magic of late Paris nights wears off. Emma is left with food phobia after being confronted with a vegan turkey on Thanksgiving. She…
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Dr Bernstein is my hero. I was lucky enough to come across his book The Diabetes Solution when I was newly diagnosed. It advocates normal blood sugars for diabetics by following a very low carbohydrate diet. At the time I was carb counting, or trying to match the grams of carbohydrates in my meals with larger insulin doses…
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