Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20403 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 502 pages

Customer Reviews

Healthy cynicism, healthy diet
This weighty tome of a book (428 pages) is a well researched work on so-called 'healthy eating'.

The author Barry Groves (researcher and lecturer) comes from England, and looks in detail at the role of fats, grains, bran, meat, salt, vegetables and fruit and even sunlight in the British diet - and the marketing thereof, and draws some startling conclusions. He asks (and answers) such questions as:
Who benefits from persuading us that we should eat more fruit?
More grain?
Skimmed milk?
And who benefits financially from our currently overweight and over-ill nation?

For example, he states that -
"The mantra that everyone will know is 'eat five portions of fruit and veg a day.' Yet there is little evidence of benefit over about two portions a week: and eating as much as five a day could have serious adverse effects on health. Growing them is also a wasteful use of land."
These are powerful words, but Mr Groves backs up his claims with plenty of research and evidence: 53 pages of references at the back of the book.

Mr Groves has also researched connections between diet and conditions such as diabetes, cancer and multiple sclerosis, that are hard to argue with. It makes for difficult reading at times.

Mr Groves also says "The good news is that you don't have to be exploited. If you put your mind to it, not only can you be totally healthy, you can personally help to cut the cost of ill-health in this country to a fraction of its current levels. If you are not ill, they can't sell you expensive drugs. And once that happens, your taxes can be reduced..."

Mr Groves looks to the natural order of foods and nature herself to consider a truly healthy diet, and what that might look like. Some might say it's common sense, but it's good to read well researched facts to back up those nagging doubts that many of us have been harbouring for many years.

This could be the start of a food revolution...

Another very Good book on the ''Healthy Diet'' we are told to eat !
This is a great book analysing the 'healthy diet' that we are advised to eat daily - eg. 5 fruit/veg a day, milk, bread etc... and how in actual fact it, if carried out, it can be bad for you.
It is good just like his older book (eat fat get thin) which looked at Low-carb. This book looks at the whole diet, sorry i meant 'healthy diet', and how it is told and shown to us (the food pyramid).
Excellent book, I'm now going to buy his Fluoride Book - which I'm not looking forward to as I drink quite alot of water daily!
Its like his older book not overly scientific but readable for the average person, lots and lots of research has gone in to it and in some areas it does shock you. A great read, highly recommended.

Buy it
Not just a book on what to eat. Its much broader than that encompassing a run down on why the new low fat diet is in fact so bad for us and explains how the Health Industry, in the interests of profits, is so keen to push this diet and moreover ensure we stay ill.