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And yet... the average person IS fat, and unhealthy, compared to a couple of generations ago.
Glassner is just a journalist with a gimmick - selectively choose research & make a case against the current scientific orthodoxy.
He's doing well - people love to be told that they are doing the right thing, especially when they really know they aren't - but in the long term, he's doing nobody any good.
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The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food Is Wrong by Barry Glassner
Paul Perry, November 17, 2008
And yet... the average person IS fat, and unhealthy, compared to a couple of generations ago.Glassner is just a journalist with a gimmick - selectively choose research & make a case against the current scientific orthodoxy.
He's doing well - people love to be told that they are doing the right thing, especially when they really know they aren't - but in the long term, he's doing nobody any good.