Nutritionist Patricia Crotty uncovers the dynamics behind dietary advice. She shows that the major dietary maxim of our time, that we all should reduce fat consumption to avoid heart disease, is misguided, and in some cases even harmful. Its basis is as much social as scientific, and it has major implications for women. Tracing nutritional advice in the US, the UK and Australia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crotty points to scientists' increasingly irrational use of available evidence. She argues that there is a growing gap between experts' pronouncements and the realities of everyday life. 'This book could teach us all to think more and preach less...Nutritional science marches on an agenda governed by views that are acceptable to the current 'club' of researchers and their commercial funders. Those with differing views are denied access, while those...who may be more in touch with the impact the nutritional gospel has on people's lives are ignored. Patricia Crotty's book will hurt some egos, but that may be long overdue.' Rosemary Stanton
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