2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner in the "Health" Category
From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York
Times bestselling follow-up, Whole
Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on
nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever--about the
foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our
health.
In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise
with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we
eat, the source of our present information overload, and what our
current path means for the future--both for individual health and
society as a whole.
In these pages, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself,
unpacking:
- Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of
whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic
consequences
- How our reverence for "high quality" animal protein has distorted our
understanding of cholesterol, saturated fat, unsaturated fat,
environmental carcinogens, and more
- Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy
favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health
- How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat
personal illness more effectively and economically
The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the
curtain of the field of nutrition--with implications both for our health
and for the practice of science itself.
