If you eat and are concerned about your weight &/or health, you really need to read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.
It is a little difficult to read. It contains lots of analysis of scientific (and not so scientific) studies regarding food, weight, exercise, and health.
Basically it says that everything that we have been told regarding eating healthy
and how to lose weight is wrong. He shows how almost none of the information
we have been told is not backed up by any study/research/biochemical pathway, etc. Plus he shows how some of the seemingly new radical ideas about food and eating are not not new.
Also that not all calories are the same. Carbohydrate calories behave very differently in our bodies than fat calories.
It is truely mind altering. An absolute must read.
For more info on this book check out the following websites:
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400040780
He wrote an article for the NY Times back in 2002 which led him to writing this book. You can read the article at:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E2D61F3EF934A35754C0A9649C8B63
There is a YouTube film of the Larry King live show featuring Dr. Andrew Weil and Gary Taubes. You can see it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQGRJqGQTs
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