Diet Cults by Matt Fitzgerald
From the national bestselling author of Racing Weight, Matt Fitzgerald exposes the irrationality, half-truths, and downright impossibility of a single right way to eat and reveals how to develop rational, healthy eating habits. From the Four-Hour Body to Atkins, there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the one true way to eat for maximum health. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than twelve thousand years old are the enemy. Low-carb gurus demonize carbs, and then there are the low-fat prophets. But they agree on one thing: there is only one true way to eat for maximum health. The first clue that this is a fallacy is the sheer variety of diets advocated. Indeed, while all of these competing views claim to be backed by science, a good look at actual nutritional science suggests it is impossible to identify a single best way to eat. Fitzgerald advocates an agnostic, rational approach to eating habits based on one's own habits, lifestyle, and genetics and body type. Many professional athletes already practice this Good Enough diet, and now we can too--and ditch the brainwashing of these diet cults for good.
Matt Fitzgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports and nutrition writer and a certified sports nutritionist. He is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books on running and fitness, including 80/20 Running, How Bad Do You Want It, Racing Weight, and Iron War, which was long-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and Diet Cults, also available from Pegasus Books. He is a columnist on Competitor.com and Active.com, and has contributed to Bicycling, Men’s Health, Triathlete, Men’s Journal, Outside, Runner’s World, Shape, and Women’s Health. He lives in San Diego, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781605985602 |
| ISBN 10 | 1605985600 |
| Title | Diet Cults |
| Author | Matt Fitzgerald |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pegasus Books |
| Year published | 2014-06-17 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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