Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics
A Nonfiction, Food, Diets book. Back in high school, I once had to burn a Cheeto in...
Calories—too few or too many—are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically. As they take readers through...
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Really good book. Dense and takes some effort to get through as it's quite detailed (at least to a non-scientist like me) but definitely worth it. I cook for a living and focus on healthful foods, but have really never taken the time to understand how calorie assessments are made, how different types of food are metabolized by the body...and... This book is so freaking awesome. If you have ever read a diet or nutrition book, read this one and don't bother with the others. It will answer all your questions and straighten out all the weird ideas you got in your head from so much misinformation that is ubiquitous in diet books. Michael Pollen, Joel Furhman, Dr. Oz, Joe Friel,... Back in high school, I once had to burn a Cheeto in a science lab. Since then, I think I've had a pretty good grasp of what a calorie is (which is good, since that was the purpose of the lab). Apparently, though, not everyone got to burn up snack food in school. Chatting with the husband, he was fairly clueless about calories in food...
