The Truth About Food: Why Pandas Eat Bamboo and People Get Bamboozled

[Eddy Edson]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...beb-4819111bef9a&pf_rd_r=25RR1GGXX4GSJHC23FWF

Out today, by David Katz. A comprehensive exposition of the mainstream & why it is the mainstream, told with a certain flair & about twice as many words as necessary.

In The Truth about Food, one of the world’s leading authorities on lifestyle medicine, health promotion, and the prevention of chronic disease lays out not just what he knows about diet and health, but how and why he knows it. This book uniquely empowers readers to benefit from what’s fundamentally and reliably true - while setting us all free from fads, false claims, and distractions by showing how to differentiate truth from the exploitative “lies” that abound. This book would be much shorter if it only detailed what we know to be true today. It shows how to keep up with new findings, too, and most importantly- how never to be duped again. Based on science, informed by uncommon sense, and aligned with the global consensus of diverse experts, The Truth about Food is an invitation to add years to your life and life to your years; to love the food that loves you back for a lifetime; and to enjoy the comforting confidence that only comes from genuine understanding.

 

[mikeyB]

Hmm, I suspect this is yet another book to promote self interest - David Katz has form in this regard. He’s an editor and board member on the Naked Food magazine, which promotes a plant and vegetable diet, often raw. He’s just another person with a bee in his bonnet. And he hasnt got a paid medical job at the moment.

In the past, he wrote a science fiction book, and posted glowing reviews under different names to The Huffington Post, who weren’t best pleased when they found out. He probably wrote the blurb you quote.

 

[mikeyB]

Incidentally, pandas eat bamboo because they are stupid and lazy. Their guts and dentition show that they are set up to be meat eating omnivores, but they can’t be bothered with all that, they have to eat bamboo. All day. The only thing they’ve evolved to cope with this spectacularly dumb decision is an incredibly low reproduction rate. Too many pandas would eat all the bamboo.

 

[Eddy Edson]

He actually reviewed his pseudonymous science fiction book using his own name in columns he wrote for HuffPost, when he was a regular columnist there. A substantial twit-move. Checking it out via Amazon's "Look Inside", the book was completely unreadable.

Nevertheless, he's a good if annoyingly verbose writer on mainstream nutrition. I think the proceeds from this book are supposed to go this non-profit he founded: http://www.truehealthinitiative.org/ for promoting consensus views, which seems to have pretty broad support.

Pandas: The stupid local government spent a zillion dollars inducing the Chinese to lend a pair & changing the wonderful zoo in annoying ways to accommodate them & the floods of tourists who were supposed to be eager to come and watch them lying around failing to mate. This plan failed.