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Physician and popular New York Times contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many “bad” ingredients actually aren’t unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being.
Advice about food can be confusing. There’s usually only one thing experts can agree on some ingredients—often the most enjoyable ones—are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, if we stop consuming some of our most demonized foods, it may actually hurt us. Examining troves of studies on dietary health, Carroll separates hard truths from hype, showing that you can
Full of counterintuitive, deeply researched lessons about food we hate to love, The Bad Food Bible is for anyone who wants to forge eating habits that are sensible, sustainable, and occasionally indulgent.
Advice about food can be confusing. There’s usually only one thing experts can agree on some ingredients—often the most enjoyable ones—are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, if we stop consuming some of our most demonized foods, it may actually hurt us. Examining troves of studies on dietary health, Carroll separates hard truths from hype, showing that you can
- Eat red meat several times a week. Its effects are negligible for most people, and actually positive if you’re 65 or older.
- Have a drink or two a day. In moderation, alcohol may protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk.
- Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to time. It has less fat and sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one.
- Eat more salt. If your blood pressure is normal, you may be getting too little sodium, not too much.
Full of counterintuitive, deeply researched lessons about food we hate to love, The Bad Food Bible is for anyone who wants to forge eating habits that are sensible, sustainable, and occasionally indulgent.
Ebook The Bad Food Bible Why You Can and Maybe Should Eat Everything You Thought You Couldn't Aaron Carroll Nina Teicholz 9781328505774 Books
"Very entertaining and informative book about nutrition and diets. I am a retired nurse and have always felt that common sense was the basis of a good diet. And I have also cast a skeptic eye on any research studies that banned one kind of food or diet. Dr Carroll deals with these and other issues. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a balanced and sane diet. I also recommend is YouTube channel, "Healthcare Triage." I'm a regular watcher. This is the kind of book you want to read more than once but you also want to shave with friends and family."
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The Bad Food Bible Why You Can and Maybe Should Eat Everything You Thought You Couldn't Aaron Carroll Nina Teicholz 9781328505774 Books Reviews :
The Bad Food Bible Why You Can and Maybe Should Eat Everything You Thought You Couldn't Aaron Carroll Nina Teicholz 9781328505774 Books Reviews
- I am writing this review because my cousin wanted me to read this book and, having done so, I figured I might as well make my comments public. I am a clinical endocrinologist in Hawaii in practice for 30 years, with a slightly academic bent.
I would give this 4.5 stars, if possible---my overall recommendation is that many people should read this book! I am sympathetic to the author's main points as they apply to people who do not have a metabolic disease Many of the recommendations for dietary restriction that are made by health care professionals for people in general are lacking in a solid scientific foundation. When there is evidence for potential harm, the actual risk for an individual is often exaggerated. And when we think about the potential harm to a person's health from consuming a particular food or drink, that should take place within the context of a person's life, the pleasurable aspects of eating or drinking that particular item as well as the social context.
Now for some criticisms, which are probably more meaningful to someone who has already read the book
1. The author tries to convey to the reader the importance of looking at the type of evidence that is reported, whether a study is retrospective or prospective. The strongest evidence comes from (prospective) randomized double-blind placebo-controlled studies. When looking at outcomes such as a coronary event or death it is difficult or impossible to design such a study for alcohol, coffee, meat, eggs, etc. Doing any prospective study comparing consumption vs non-consumption is a challenge. Consequently he relies very heavily on what are called meta-analyses of retrospective studies in which an author selects studies from the medical literature that meet certain criteria and then pools the results in some way. While doing so is better than cherry picking studies to support a preconceived viewpoint, the decision about what criteria to use may introduce bias. Also, putting together data from a lot of weak studies does not make a strong study.
2. The author says that his recommendations are for healthy people without metabolic problems, but if one looks at the American adult population, that excludes a very large number of people. Many people do not even know that they have metabolic issues. Also, many of the studies that inform us regarding the effects of various foods and drinks are based on data that include people with metabolic disorders.
3. The author seems to lack a larger perspective on the issue of cholesterol metabolism and misrepresents a few issues, I believe. He says that serum triglyceride levels are associated with heart disease, but he does not mention that they are also inversely correlated with HDL-cholesterol levels, which are together a part of what is called "the metabolic syndrome." It is this (genetic) disorder of metabolism rather than the triglyceride levels themselves that is bad for heart health. Second, he lumps monounsaturated fats into the same category as polyunsaturated fats, which is incorrect because monounsaturated fats have a positive effect on cholesterol metabolism, not the same for polys. Moreover, he fails to discuss the strong support (including prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled studies) for the cholesterol hypothesis that higher LDL-cholesterol levels cause coronary disease and that lowering these levels reduces risk.
4. In the Introduction he claims that the obesity epidemic of the late 20th century was caused by the shift from intake of fats to carbohydrates. In his chapter on Butter he states "There is one thing we do know about fats, however. Fat consumption does not cause weight gain. To the contrary, it might actually help us shed a few pounds." I believe the obesity epidemic is more accurately related to an increased total calorie intake available through fast foods, etc. To state that fats do not cause weight gain is on the face of it ridiculous, but what I believe he means to say is that substituting equal calories of carbohydrate for fat will not achieve the desired goal. The problem with a quick lunch of hamburger, french fries, and a soda is neither the fat alone nor the carbohydrate alone, but the total calorie intake as it affects weight.
I learned a lot from reading this book and plan to look up some of the studies that he references. This is a very worthwhile read. - When I was a kid, there was a seasoning called Accent. Both its TV commercials and its canisters featured a little horn with the slogan “Wake up the flavor.†We poured that stuff on everything (except for our Captain Crunch), often accompanying our culinary adventures by making little horn sounds.
It turns out Accent was pure MSG. Who knew? And yet we lived to tell the tale. Neither me nor my siblings ever got headaches as kids. Or ever get headaches as adults. Indeed, we seem to have acquired some headache immunity from using this stuff. (Correlation, not causation, a good researcher would say.)
The reason, as you’ll learn in The Bad Food Bible, is that MSG isn’t bad for you, even apparently in the quantities we devoured. (Yes, we know – you get a headache when you go to a Chinese restaurant. That could be your imagination, or you may be one of the few people with a sensitivity to it, just like a few people have sensitivities to other foods.)
MSG isn’t the only maligned food. Is butter good for you or bad? Milk? Artificial sweeteners? Organic foods? Sugar? Meat? Red meat? Tuna? Coffee? Wine? Eggs? Salt?
Oh, and don’t forget gluten. Turns out, virtually every one of these foods has been studied in depth…and here the studies in both directions are summarized and sourced.
I feel like this book plays it right down the middle and that the thumbs-ups and thumbs-down can be trusted. - Very entertaining and informative book about nutrition and diets. I am a retired nurse and have always felt that common sense was the basis of a good diet. And I have also cast a skeptic eye on any research studies that banned one kind of food or diet. Dr Carroll deals with these and other issues. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a balanced and sane diet. I also recommend is YouTube channel, "Healthcare Triage." I'm a regular watcher. This is the kind of book you want to read more than once but you also want to shave with friends and family.
- Loved this book, the most significant thing I got out of this book is how nutrition research is lacking at best, how things become trends from small sample size studies, I know people are always looking for the magic bullet, we want to be able to eat anything then take a pill to negate the calories. Deep down I think most people know how they should be eating, there is no great revelation, eat anything in moderation.
- This was an eye opener very help for me to eat better.
- The book is organized into eleven chapters dealing with particular hot-button food issues--GMOs, coffee, butter, meat, gluten, alcohol, salt, eggs, diet soda, MSG and non-organic foods. Along with the usual sections like an introduction, noes, index and acknowledgments there is the author’s conclusion/philosophy. I found this particularly helpful because after reading each chapter I could see how the conclusion incorporated the material in a common sense guide with an eye, but not obsession, toward healthy living.
Each chapter explains current research and/or thinking on the subject so the reader can form an opinion on the matter, or at least see that often nutritional advice stating certain foods are to be avoided may simply not have sufficient scientific evidence backing the claim. The book is written in a way that makes what can be dry/tedious nutritional information accessible, easy to read and follow. The conclusion chapter helps the reader consider a broader view that permits enjoying food, one of the pleasures of life, without unnecessary anxiety. I learned a great deal and recommend the book. - Great book! Aaron always writes in a way to keep you interested.
- Excellent book. Lots of good advice, but probably best geared towards a fairly health literate audience.
