Future of Nutrition

<i>2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner in the Health Category</i> <p/><b>From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up Whole</b> <p/><b>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.</b> <p/>In <i>The Future of Nutrition</i> 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. <p/>In these pages Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself unpacking: <p/> <li> Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic consequences <p/> <li> How our reverence for high quality animal protein has distorted our understanding of cholesterol saturated fat unsaturated fat environmental carcinogens and more <p/> <li> Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health <p/> <li> How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat personal illness more effectively and economically <p/><i>The Future of Nutrition</i> 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.