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A review by sasstronaut
The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully by Aaron Carroll
5.0
As another reviewer has mentioned, Dr. Aaron Carroll is a 5-star scientific communicator and is very good at clarifying, in the book and on his YouTube channel HealthCare Triage. The book even begins with a chapter discussing the levels of scientific study and their caveats! This is tremendously beneficial to anyone who is interested in an evidence based lifestyle.
I’m sure we all know the person that reads a headline or a sensational article and gets swept up in the mission to make everyone aware of the dangers of _____. I wish they would all read this book. In fact I’m loaning it already to someone for just that reason. Nutritional questions are difficult and stressing ourselves out over things that have no basis in reality (or flimsy ones) will make us crazy. Why not get some help from someone who eases into this all the time?
The book is nicely split up into chapters of singular topic - Meat, Coffee, Sugar, etc. - and surprisingly, it doesn’t feel like a slog through medical texts. Dr. Carroll’s writing is enjoyable, at times exasperated and sarcastic, other times funny, and always lively. I’ll be reading the other books he co-authored, but honestly I can’t wait for him to write more!
In the meantime however, he’s given me the tools to feel more confident wading through the deep amounts of nutritional information out there without losing my mind.
I’m sure we all know the person that reads a headline or a sensational article and gets swept up in the mission to make everyone aware of the dangers of _____. I wish they would all read this book. In fact I’m loaning it already to someone for just that reason. Nutritional questions are difficult and stressing ourselves out over things that have no basis in reality (or flimsy ones) will make us crazy. Why not get some help from someone who eases into this all the time?
The book is nicely split up into chapters of singular topic - Meat, Coffee, Sugar, etc. - and surprisingly, it doesn’t feel like a slog through medical texts. Dr. Carroll’s writing is enjoyable, at times exasperated and sarcastic, other times funny, and always lively. I’ll be reading the other books he co-authored, but honestly I can’t wait for him to write more!
In the meantime however, he’s given me the tools to feel more confident wading through the deep amounts of nutritional information out there without losing my mind.