num_pages: 137
description: Nutritionist Patricia Crotty uncovers the dynamics behind dietary advice. She shows that the major dietary maxim of our time, that we all should reduce fat consumption to avoid heart disease, is misguided, and in some cases even harmful. Its basis is as much social as scientific, and it has major implications for women.Tracing nutritional advice in the US, the UK and Australia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crotty points to scientists' increasingly irrational use of available evidence. She argues that there is a growing gap between experts' pronouncements and the realities of everyday life.
language: English
title: Good Nutrition?: Fact and Fashion in Dietary Advice
titlecomplete: Good Nutrition?: Fact and Fashion in Dietary Advice
publisher: Allen & Unwin