Food Fibs That Made Us Fat & the Always Sometimes Never Eat Guide to a Healthy Diet

A nutritional 'Who Dunit'. The story of how one man's obsession with cholesterol and saturated fat changed eating habits around the world, a change that led to the epidemic of obesity and chronic disease that is close to overwhelming our health care systems. This book exposes a cascade of lies about food and healthy eating and how 400 million people were conned into taking part in a vast uncontrolled experiment. It reveals how poor science, bad science, food industry lobbying and sensational media coverage became enshrined in nutritional dogma. Slowly the tide is turning about what a healthy diet really is and there is increasing awareness that saturated fat is not quite the bad guy is made out to be. But is there another fib lurking in the wings? With a quarter of adult Americans taking Statins are cholesterol, Statins and plant sterols a fib in waiting? You really are what you eat and this eye opening book questions what a healthy diet really is.