101 Dietary Myths: Scientific Facts and Human Nutrition Beliefs: Learn the Truth about Diet and Nutrition Myths and Improve the Way You Eat

We are all increasingly bewildered by the simple question of what to eat. Conventional wisdom is often wrong. Despite advice from experts, governments and dieticians about the dangers of too much fat, sugar, protein and lack of exercise, our nutrition and the incidence of dietary-related chronic disease, including the global obesity crisis - is getting worse. Confusing and contradictory information is everywhere. Over the past forty years, almost every aspect of our modern diet has been singled out and vilified as the most grievous offender by one “expert” or another: gluten, dairy, saturated fat, sodium, red meat, white sugar, carbohydrates, soy, and on and on.
To further confound the nutritional mindscape, as scientific knowledge continues to expand our understanding of how the human body works, many previously held ideas about nutrition have become severely outdated. When beliefs which have been collectively held for a long period of time are eventually proven to be completely false, people still have an extraordinarily difficult time changing their ideas and aligning their behaviors with the new knowledge. Human nature is an inscrutable mystery. There are often large disparities between current scientific evidence and current everyday practice. Decreasing the gap between what is known and what is done is not always easy. The stopping of previously recommended practices is even harder to achieve than initiating a new health-promoting behavior or even increasing an under-performed one. What is needed to help people change their beliefs is for them to hear the rational scientific evidence which has arisen to disprove the previous ideas. And it will need to be heard repeatedly throughout society from as many voices as possible for an unclear but significant duration—until the new ideas take root in our collective consciousness.
Drawing on the latest science and own pioneering research, Professor Scott Gerson, MD, Ph.D. explores the myths which influence our dietary choices.
Mixing cutting-edge discoveries, illuminating science and his own case studies, Gerson shows why we should abandon many of our most strongly held dietary ideas and instead embrace a philosophy of balance for a healthy mind and body.
As well as debunking 101 of the most pervasive of these myths, the book includes Dr. Gerson’s simple and rational plan for healthy eating based on a rigorous review of current nutritional science.