Nutrition in Crisis

How is it possible that in the most scientific period in history, our society runs on incorrect scientific information about food and our body?

Almost every day it seems a new study is published that shows you are at risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or death due to something you've just eaten. Many of us no longer know what to eat or who to believe. In Nutrition in Crisis, distinguished biochemist Richard Feinman cuts through the noise, explaining the intricacies of nutrition and human metabolism in accessible terms. He lays out the tools you need to navigate the current confusion in medical literature and the increasing misuse of flawed data in the media.

Feinman offers an unsparing critique of the nutritional establish­ment, which continues to demonize fat and ignore the benefits of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets despite decades of evidence to the contrary. Entertaining, informative, and irreverent, Feinman paints a broad picture of the nutrition world and explains what's wrong with reports claiming the foods we've been eating for centu­ries represent a threat rather than a source of pleasure.

Richard David Feinman, PhD, is a professor of cell biology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and a former co-editor-in-chief of the open access medical journal, Nutrition & Metabolism.