by I picked this book up in the Phoenix airport while flying from Philadelphia to Phoenix to Seattle in order to attend a conference. The book reads as though the author was thinking of writing three completely different books and settled on writing just one book, but didn’t compromise on the fact that he was juggling no less than three different ideas while composing it. That’s not to say it was a bad read. Lots of interesting information about Greek mythology, a lesser known story from WWII, and some ideas about health and nutrition that left me with a lot more questions than answers by the time I finished it.
The net result was that I got off the plane in Philadelphia and adopted a ketogenic diet for a solid month before I decided that having to eat two pounds of meat per day was just too expensive and time-consuming, when it came to preparation. The keto experience requires a whole blog post to itself and will come another day. One of the most interesting things I learned about diet and nutrition during this experience was just how many calories one obtains from carbs and what happens when you decide to give them up.
After reading this book, I came to realize, in the realm of nutrition there are three domains of knowledge:
- What people used to think about nutrition
- What science seems to be saying now
- Bro science
Sorting out all of the above is tough. This book challenged a lot of what I thought I knew about nutrition and has me searching for solid answers. And for that reason alone, I found this book a good and valuable read.
