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The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« on: October 23, 2018, 09:17:40 am »
Title: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
(Fiction: Adult)
Author(s): Aaron Carroll, MD
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: November 2017
ISBN: 0544952561
ISBN-13: 978-0544952560
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Description:
Physician and popular New York Times Upshot contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many “bad” ingredients actually aren’t unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being.

Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing experts can agree on: some ingredients—often the most enjoyable ones—are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, these oversimplifications are both wrong and dangerous: if we stop consuming some of our most demonized ingredients altogether, it may actually hurt us. In The Bad Food Bible, Carroll examines the scientific evidence, showing among other things that you can:  
 
·Eat red meat several times a week: The health effects are negligible for most people, and actually positive if you're 65 or older.
·Have a drink or two a day: As long as it's in moderation, it will protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk.
·Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to time: It has less fat and sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one.
·Eat more salt: If your blood pressure is normal, you should be more worried about getting too little sodium than having too much.
 
Full of counterintuitive lessons about food we hate to love, The Bad Food Bible is for anyone who wants to forge eating habits that are sensible, sustainable, and occasionally indulgent.

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Re: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2018, 09:21:08 am »
·Eat red meat several times a week: The health effects are negligible for most people, and actually positive if you're 65 or older.
·Have a drink or two a day: As long as it's in moderation, it will protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk.
·Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to time: It has less fat and sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one.
·Eat more salt: If your blood pressure is normal, you should be more worried about getting too little sodium than having too much.

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Re: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2018, 10:43:32 pm »
Before even reading it, I like it already!
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Re: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2018, 11:00:49 pm »
·Eat red meat several times a week: The health effects are negligible for most people, and actually positive if you're 65 or older.
·Have a drink or two a day: As long as it's in moderation, it will protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk.
·Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to time: It has less fat and sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one.
·Eat more salt: If your blood pressure is normal, you should be more worried about getting too little sodium than having too much.

I might have to check it out.

I already have a drink or two each day, and many people try to tell me it's not normal or healthy to do so, so this book might corroborate my views on that! Ditto for the salt thing; people worry way too much about sodium, which is only a problem when you do it in extreme excess.

As for gluten, it's not bad for you unless you have celiac disease, in which case you already know that! It's not bad for people who don't have celiac, in pretty much any way at all.

I also readily admit that meat's not unhealthy. That's not why I avoid it; I avoid it because it's (IMO) unethical and unsustainable, and because my religion explicitly prohibits eating it.

Overall, it sound like it's based on good science and not pseudoscience!

I do have to ask, before I pick the book up, one thing though:

How hard does it push eating meat? If it's all about meat eating and doesn't allow for other options, there's no point in bothering with it. Vegetarianism is not negotiable for me, and I'm not slogging through a book that praises meat every other page. If it has like, a chapter or so on meat, that's fine, but if the whole book is about that, i'll pass on it. Can anyone whose read it chime in as to whether or not this is the case?
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Re: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2018, 06:12:16 pm »
How hard does it push eating meat? If it's all about meat eating and doesn't allow for other options, there's no point in bothering with it. Vegetarianism is not negotiable for me, and I'm not slogging through a book that praises meat every other page. If it has like, a chapter or so on meat, that's fine, but if the whole book is about that, i'll pass on it. Can anyone whose read it chime in as to whether or not this is the case?

So, there's a chapter on meat, as the book contains individual chapters on specific things, such as alcohol, artificial sweetener, organic food and so on.  It was one of the earlier chapters, and as a vegetarian myself I only skim read it (and as mentioned in a couple of other recent threads, my memory for knowledge is really not very good), so I can't really recall much of that chapter in any real detail.  But I'm pretty confident, even with my sketchy memory, that the author of this book wouldn't try to get his readers to eat meat if they have their reasons for not wanting to do so.

I think I recall some passages about the challenges of e.g. getting sufficient protein as a veggie, and it's possible that he refers to his own meat eating in some other chapters, along the lines of how he enjoys an occasional good steak.

But overall, this book definitely doesn't bang on about how people should eat meat, and from what you've said in other recent threads I suspect that you'd quite enjoy it, if you don't mind skipping the one meat chapter and overlooking the fact the author's a meat-eater.
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Re: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2018, 06:17:49 pm »
Before even reading it, I like it already!

It's actually a good read - I was worried it'd be too science-heavy for me, but it's very readable.

There's a big section of notes at the back, for those who are into their science (and/or research methodologies and the such) but the main chapters of the book kept my interest through being quite engaging.

Has anyone else on here read it?
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Re: The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2018, 07:55:41 pm »
But overall, this book definitely doesn't bang on about how people should eat meat, and from what you've said in other recent threads I suspect that you'd quite enjoy it, if you don't mind skipping the one meat chapter and overlooking the fact the author's a meat-eater.

I don't mind that. It's not like it would offend me, I just didn't want to waste my time if that's all the book was.
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