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The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy
by Caroline Dooner
challenging
hopeful
medium-paced
While I appreciate the premise of this book, the author cherry picks and misrepresents studies throughout, and everything she said could’ve been said in 100 pages. The repetition was exhausting.
As a recovering wellness junkie myself, I’m pretty sure Caroline’s version of the Fuck It Diet was inspired by Ray Peat’s pro-metabolic diet (she cites his work in the book), which has gotten popular on Instagram over the past few years. She also cites a study by Chris Kresser, who’s a functional medicine guy, and claims the Intersalt study proved that a certain tribe didn’t consume much salt but still had a low life expectancy therefore lots of salt is good… The whole book just reeks of wellness girlie grasping at straws to support what she wants to believe.
About 50 pages in, I went to her IG so that I could follow her, and wow. Since publishing TFID, she has fallen so far down the right wing conspiracy rabbit hole, it’s appalling. It seems like she has embraced radicalism throughout her life as a way to feel special and keep engagement on social media. She’s now transphobic, homophobic, pro-Christian nationalism. She’s also weirdly vocal (and wrong) about seed oils.
If you’ve ever been deep into wellness and conspiracies, you’ll probably notice the subtle foreshadowing as you read this book. The signs are all there.
The book gets one star for being easy to read, and being anti diet. However, take all of it with a grain of salt (lol), because the studies she lists are often cherry picked and/or poorly interpreted, and just saying “fuck it” and eating everything in sight isn’t the right approach for every body.
As a recovering wellness junkie myself, I’m pretty sure Caroline’s version of the Fuck It Diet was inspired by Ray Peat’s pro-metabolic diet (she cites his work in the book), which has gotten popular on Instagram over the past few years. She also cites a study by Chris Kresser, who’s a functional medicine guy, and claims the Intersalt study proved that a certain tribe didn’t consume much salt but still had a low life expectancy therefore lots of salt is good… The whole book just reeks of wellness girlie grasping at straws to support what she wants to believe.
About 50 pages in, I went to her IG so that I could follow her, and wow. Since publishing TFID, she has fallen so far down the right wing conspiracy rabbit hole, it’s appalling. It seems like she has embraced radicalism throughout her life as a way to feel special and keep engagement on social media. She’s now transphobic, homophobic, pro-Christian nationalism. She’s also weirdly vocal (and wrong) about seed oils.
If you’ve ever been deep into wellness and conspiracies, you’ll probably notice the subtle foreshadowing as you read this book. The signs are all there.
The book gets one star for being easy to read, and being anti diet. However, take all of it with a grain of salt (lol), because the studies she lists are often cherry picked and/or poorly interpreted, and just saying “fuck it” and eating everything in sight isn’t the right approach for every body.