Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us

<p>From the national bestselling author of Racing Weight, Matt Fitzgerald exposes the irrationality, half-truths, and downright impossibility of a &quot;single right way&quot; to eat, and reveals how to develop rational, healthy eating habits.</p> From &quot;The Four Hour Body,&quot; to &quot;Atkins,&quot; there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the &quot;One True Way&quot; 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, 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 that is a fallacy is the sheer variety of diets advocated. Indeed, while all of these competing views claim to be backed by &quot;science,&quot; a good look at actual nutritional science itself suggests that 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/body type. Many professional athletes already practice this &quot;Good Enough&quot; diet, and now we can too and ditch the brainwashing of these diet cults for good.