Title: Finally, a diet book with something to say
Review: I was attracted to this book by the Harvard Medical School auspices under which it was published, but expected more of the same old same old. WOW, was I wrong. Here is a book, written not by some alternative medicine wacko but by serious establishment scientists, that takes many of our current accepted principles about eating and persuasively dismantles them. It's the 21st century, after all, and as the authors show us, there is new and more sophisticated information (the glycemic index, for example) that should change our ideas about which carbohydrates are "complex" and other things we have grown to take for granted. Even if you don't buy all of it (the notion that the conventional food pyramid was the result of undue influence by agriculture, for example), this is a book that will make you think, reassess, and perhaps change your dietary habits. Very worthwhile.
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