Forbidden Food: How Science Says You can Eat what you Like and Like what you Eat

Everybody believes that diet influences health: trans fat plugs your arteries. We are threatened by an epidemic of obesity and diabetes caused by too much junk food. Salt is a silent killer. Raw, coarse, ground-with-stone grains cleanse the bowels and prevent cancer. Eating food produced in farms close to where you live will set you free from the tyranny of food multinationals.

But where, really, did these ideas come from? The average person's answer is that they are proven by medical scienc...