A Grain of Salt: The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat

by Dr Joe Schwarcz Narrated by Jonathan Yen

Overview

A curated collection of new and updated Dr. Joe essays on food and nutrition

Of all the dietary and nutritional claims pitched to us, what can we believe? How does cinnamon affect your health? How splendid is Splenda? Should you buy farmed, wild, or canned food? What's fishy about fish-oil supplements? Will a diet of Twinkies and M&M's lead to weight loss? Water from a tap or from a plastic bottle—which should you choose, and which is better for the environment? Should you carry your groceries home in plastic or brown paper? We all have questions, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz has the answers, some of which will astonish you.

Guaranteed to satisfy your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz separates fact from fiction in this collection of new and updated articles about what to eat, what not to eat, and how to recognize the scientific basis of food chemistry.

Editorial Reviews

JANUARY 2020 - AudioFile

Jonathan Yen is to be commended for the clarity and intelligence of his narration of this audiobook. The author seeks to ensure that listeners can distinguish between science and pseudoscience when thinking about what to eat. Yen handles the scientific nomenclature admirably and, most importantly, has the right tone. The work, chockablock with information, has detailed researched opinions on the use and misuse of nutritional information. It is a much needed corrective to the plethora of preposterous notions about what we eat put forth daily on the Internet and elsewhere. Here is a thoughtful, often funny, audiobook that attacks pseudoscientific claims with the sharp edge of chemistry and molecular biology. Nutrition posers, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Brady, are excoriated by the McGill University-based Schwarcz. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2020 - AudioFile

Jonathan Yen is to be commended for the clarity and intelligence of his narration of this audiobook. The author seeks to ensure that listeners can distinguish between science and pseudoscience when thinking about what to eat. Yen handles the scientific nomenclature admirably and, most importantly, has the right tone. The work, chockablock with information, has detailed researched opinions on the use and misuse of nutritional information. It is a much needed corrective to the plethora of preposterous notions about what we eat put forth daily on the Internet and elsewhere. Here is a thoughtful, often funny, audiobook that attacks pseudoscientific claims with the sharp edge of chemistry and molecular biology. Nutrition posers, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Tom Brady, are excoriated by the McGill University-based Schwarcz. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173539892
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	10/08/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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