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    The Year of the Flood

    Margaret Atwood

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Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

Phoebe, November 16, 2007

The first part of this book includes an eye-opening review of 'scientific' studies done on diet and heart disease. There's a lot of contradictory evidence that never appeared in Time or Newsweek. Not that you would know it by what the 'experts' claim as incontrovertible truth.
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