The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786072165 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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As a restaurant critic, qualified chef and greedy person, I found the book fascinating a thoughtful, forensically researched and referenced work on healthy eating and, more importantly, it’s entertaining.”-- The Evening Standard (UK) "It's easy to see why he’s so angry as he describes what fad diets do to vulnerable people. Warner’s analyses are clever and original, digging deep, and avoiding easy conclusions … This is an important book, and a good one.” --The Spectator “Warner’s history of quackery is riveting and the chapter on clean eating, and the part it has played in fueling anorexia is particularly persuasive.”--The Sunday Times "A terrific and, sad to say, much needed book: both heartfelt and thought
This irreverent and intelligent expose brings sanity and good sense to one of life's great pleasures." Steven Pinker, author of Angels of Our Better NatureNever before have we had so much information available to us about food and health. "The popular understanding of nutrition is clouded by superstitions, primitive intuitions, conspiracy theories, and old wives' tales. At the end of it all you’ll have the tools to spot pseudoscience for yourself and the Angry Chef will be off for a nice cup of tea – and it will have two sugars in it, than
Anthony Warner is a professional chef and blogger. A regular contributor to New Scientist and The Pool, his blog has been featured in the Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph and other publications. He lives in Nottinghamshire, blogs at angry-chef and you can follow him on Twitter @One_Angry_Chef.
J115 said Worthwhile and informative. This book ticked a lot of boxes for me. My work is related to science and I have interests in health nutrition and exercise / well being. I read quite a lot about exercise but find it can be difficult to find reliable sources of information about food - there always seem to be a lot of agendas and information is not. Good book. Tony Williams This is a fun rant which makes some good points about food fashions. The editing could have been tighter, and fructose got off relatively lightly (but that's my personal thing).A balanced approach to diets and assessments thereof, can be read in the article by Sir John McMichael, in BMJ 1979, 1, 173 - 175. And wilbr. Important book As someone with way too much experience with diets, alternative medicine, and endlessly conflicting advice, I highly recommend this book. I also recommend it as a parent. I hope this message catches on. The world would be a better place for it.