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# Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US

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    A must read!
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2018*

One of my favorite books on nutrition and all the myths and fallacies that surround it. It's also a good insight into human nature and the need to believe in or belong to something, no matter the drawbacks. The only thing I really disagree with Matt on is his take that endurance athletes are the healthiest people. With all the acute and overuse injuries, along with the tragic deaths that have occurred while training for and participating in endurance events like marathons, I think trainees are much better off doing some type of circuit weight training for overall fitness and health.Matt is a very good writer and the book has a good flow to it.Really nice work, every fitness and/or nutrition buff would be well advised to add this to their library.

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    Awesome
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017*

Over 65 years ago in 

  
The True Believer









  
  
    
  , Eric Hoffer surmised that political and religious fanaticism stemmed from underlying feelings of inadequacy or self-hatred. So it is with dietary fanaticism as well. People’s desperation to lose weight, or in the case vegetarians and vegans, guilt over eating animal products, will carry them to extreme lengths, and make them susceptible to nutritional claims which are bogus, if not dangerous.In my own case, I went vegan at age 17 after watching 

  
EARTHLINGS









  
  
    
  . I highly recommend people watch that movie so they can be conscientious of issues of animal suffering, but the trauma of my viewing experience blinded me to the devastation that was about to follow. After only one year of being vegan (and a mostly raw vegan at that), I was suffering from chronic indigestion, irritability, hair loss, emaciation, and acne, which I barely ever got in the thick of puberty. After switching to the McDougall Diet, a very low-fat vegan diet based on cooked starches, the acne persisted, and I now suffered from toothaches, constipation, and dry eyes. This madness continued for almost 3 years, and I always thought my health problems could be stopped by taking this or that supplement, or by tweaking my diet within the overall framework of veganism or "plant-based." Moreover, on those occasions when I did cheat on animal products, I would beat myself up about it, then vow to eat vegan harder and more diligently than ever before. This is the sort of disordered eating Matt Fitzgerald is trying to prevent.One negative reviewer of this book stated that Fitzgerald owes Loren Cordain an apology since the top four foods in Fitzgerald’s “diet hierarchy,” vegetables, fruits, nuts/seeds, and high-quality meats, are essentially the Paleo Diet. Ignoring that there IS evidence of hunter-gatherers consuming grains and legumes (plus honey- another food foolishly banned by Cordain), and that hybridized, agricultural foods are extremely different from the wild foods consumed by hunter-gatherers, this misses the point entirely about what constitutes “diet cults.” They’re not about balance, inclusivity, moderation, or nuance. They’re about certain foods being monolithically good, others being monolithically bad. Even if Cordain himself is OK with a little cheating on the Paleo Diet, he still bears responsibility for the Puritans in his movement, due to his categorical demonization of grains, legumes, and dairy- portraying them as the root cause of everything from obesity to type II diabetes to heart disease to cancer to leaky gut and autoimmune disorders, and literal toxins even. Whenever you categorically demonize a food, people are naturally going to assume that the less they eat of it, the healthier they’re going to be, when that’s not necessarily the case.In conclusion, here are my five biggest indicators someone is in a diet cult. If any of these apply to you, you need to read Fitzgerald’s book ASAP!1. You think any health problems a person experiences on your diet are due to improperly following the diet, not the diet itself. Gaining weight, or feeling sluggish, cold, constipated, or nauseous on your low carb diet? Well, you’re just eating too much protein, not enough fat. It’s time to go ketogenic. Or you’re just not keto-adapted yet. Or you’re sneaking carbs.2. You think it’s possible to eat unlimited calories on your diet and not get fat. Eat all of the butter and lard you want. You can’t store fat if you don’t spike your insulin!3. You think your diet is “the natural human diet” or “the one true way.” As Fitzgerald explains, there is no “the” human diet. Indigenous diets varied wildly, but there were some overlaps. All included cooked foods, all included a mixture of plant and animal foods, and whenever a diet was heavily skewed in favor of one macronutrient, it seems to have been carbohydrates more commonly than fat or protein.4. Your diet requires you to supplement. Nutritional supplements were not even around until the mid 1900s, so say you’re a vegan who has to supplement B12 simply to survive. That should really tell you something about how unnatural your diet is. Amazingly, some vegans will reconcile their supplementation with their belief that humans are natural herbivores, saying for example that in the olden days, people used to get B12 from “dirty” produce, and B12 deficiency is simply a result of sterile, modern fruits and vegetables.5. You see people who don’t follow your diet as being "not merely in error, but in sin.” For example, a vegetarian will commonly see meat eaters as evil. It is true the factory farming system is highly unethical, but vegetarian hatred of meat eaters extends beyond that, because vegetarians will irrationally attack people such as Joel Salatin who produce meat in an ethically and environmentally responsible manner.

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    Another great text from Matt Fitzgerald
  

*by T***W on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016*

Another great text from Matt Fitzgerald. You'll either enjoy the book or find its content difficult to swallow - most likely if you're beholden to any of the cults he discusses. His point isn't that these systems don't work, but rather that each works for reasons far different than they advertise: primarily the sense of belonging they provide. Make no mistake about it, this is a vital component to any diet, or exercise, program. However, he's absolutely correct in his point that there is no single best diet program. Research has clearly identified the ability for an individual to stick with a diet or exercise program as the factor best correlated to success. It's simply a matter of do you like it and can you stick with it.

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