Trick And Treat - how 'healthy eating' is making us ill
by Barry Groves
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Author: Barry GrovesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-15
ISBN: 1950140229
Number of pages: 550
Publisher: Hammersmith Press
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Book Review: Diet and Health Tour de Force
Summary: 5 Stars
In this, my 100th book review or so on www.Amazon.com, I admit to bias for the first time. I edited an early version of the text more than a year ago, which was acknowledged on p vii. My book, "Malignant Medical Myths", was highly praised under Resources on p489.
Dr. Groves had two main themes; (1) eating digestible carbohydrate or fiber to excess is not healthful, and is the cause of or contributes to a wide range conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, several digestive system conditions, PCOS, osteoporosis, arthritis, and a multitude of mental problems; and (2) the National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdom is not doing much to prolong the healthy lifespans of Britons, and The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA is equally compromised. This may sound familiar, if you read many books on health, or it may sound unbelievable if you don't.
What makes this book unusual is its depth of literature searching, with 1174 numbered citations. Still more unusual is the clarity and readability of this author. So we have a catchy title, a shocking cover picture, an easy-to-read style with appropriate graphs, tables, diagrams, and even a chemical reaction or two. There are also a glossary, many resources, and an excellent index. So Carl Sagan said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Dr. Groves, Ph. D. Nutrition, provides it. When there is disagreement on a topic, opposing views are cited; when there is uncertainly, it is presented as such; no ranting here. He points out what should be obvious -- drugs and wonder foods cannot save lives. "We are not an immortal species; life is a universally fatal, sexually transmitted disease. The best anything can do is prolong our lives." (p428)
Bad advice from dieticians and Big Pharma, collusion of government agencies and NGOs, perversion of physicians and others are all exposed here. The difference is that there is nutritional and medical science backing all claims in "Trick and Treat". Books on mere scandal abound, many written by reporters; they serve a purpose. But here is an unusual, scientific, very understandable presentation of why so many beliefs of your mainstream physician are false. "Many over the last century have warned that this was happening. They were ridiculed, dismissed as `cranks', sacked from their jobs, sidelined, reviled and ostracized as a result... In the last two decades, however, the rapid escalation in the numbers [of those with] chronic diseases and the visibility of them [obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's, autism, etc.] means that the evidence [of malpractice and malfeasance in office] can no longer be brushed under the carpet." (p425)
Read why eating bran and carbohydrates, even whole grain, is not healthful; about salt intake, soybean products, fluoride in water, exercise, and the truism that a diet satisfactory for thousands of years for our ancestors and for a number of primitive societies today, a diet high in animal meat and fat, could not suddenly turn dangerous in the 20th century.
So a major message is that you should use the facts in Trick and Treat to participate in your own health decisions. If this means changing providers, do it. If it means re-thinking your contributions to useless health-related charities, do it. You and your physicians need this book.
But if you want a smaller and less technical presentation with most of the same main themes, Dr. Groves' earlier book: Natural Health and Weight Loss", 2007, is also well-referenced, and contains the names and ratios of essential amino acids, carb contents of foods, and recipes. Also 5-star.
Summary of Trick And Treat - how 'healthy eating' is making us ill
Few people have 'old age' as a cause of death on their death certificate.Today, we die of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, osteoporosis, diabetes - And we accept these conditions as normal causes of death.They aren't - and neither is the ill-health, pain and discomfort that make our later years a misery.In this controversial, evidence-based account of how and why the health-care establishment has got the concept of 'healthy eating' so wrong, Barry Groves shows us how to take charge of our own health and lives, in contravention of what the health-care industry would have us believe and do.
Contents
Part I: How 'Healthy Eating' Is Making Us Ill
1. Medical Corruption
2. What's Behind The Screen$?
3. How We Got To Where We Are
4. Learning From History
5. Fats: From Tonic to Toxic
6. The Seeds of Ill Health
7. Climb Off The Bran Wagon
8. Why 'Five Portions'?
9. The Phoney War On Salt
10. Soy, Fluoride and the Thyroid
11. Our Irrational Fear of Sunlight
12. Exercise Care
13. Homo Carnivorous
14. The Metabolic Syndrome And Glycaemic Index
15. Unhealthy Dogma Means Unhealthy Diet
16. So What Should We Eat?
17. Why Low Carb Diets Must Be High Fat, Not High Protein
18. You Are What Your Grandparents Ate
19. Prevention is Better
Part II: New Diet, New Diseases
20. ' Healthy Eating' is Fattening
21. The Diabetes Time Bomb
22. Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels
23. The Dangers of Low Blood Cholesterol
24. Cancer:Disease of Civilization
25. Gut Reaction
26. Deficiency Diseases
27. Diet and the Brain
28. Multiple Sclerosis
29. ' Healthy Eating' Shows
30. And Finally . . .
Also available:
Shadows in Wonderland: a Hospital Odyssey - ISBN 1905140207
Natural Health & Weight Loss - ISBN 1905140150 The Love Trap - ISBN 1905140118
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