A review by seclement
Food Isn't Medicine: Challenge Nutrib*llocks & Escape the Diet Trap by Joshua Wolrich

5.0

A great run down on most of the most popular nutrition myths that people believe or people try to sell us. I used to believe in quite a lot of nonsense when I was young and struggling with eating disorders, but since then I have read a lot on the topic of nutrition that is evidence based, and follow the right people. Dr Wolrich is one of those people, as are people like Martin Macdonald, Ben Carpenter, and Pixie Turner. If you read around this topic enough within the evidence based nutrition sphere - whether online or in books - then none of this information will be new to you. None of it was new to me. However, I found it engaging and incredible easy to digest in the way it was written, and I wish I had bought it in hard copy rather than the kindle version so I could loan it to people. I would venture to guess that most people believe one or more of the myths in this book, based on the things I hear so many people in my life and online say, so it’s well worth a read. A one stop shop for helping you to not only think more critically about nutrition information you have heard, as well as a first step in repairing your relationship with food if it is not in the best place. And though I wish it were true that food is medicine, Wolrich will show you why it isn’t, even if nourishing yourself well can support good health (but not always...and that’s also not the same thing as medicine).