[kate58]

I am currently rereading this book, and more slowly. It was so stunning and so mind altering the first time that I kept rushing forward to the next bits before thinking over what I read, this time I am going slow and thinking more as I read.

I really, really urge people to read it. It won't just change what you think about eating and nutrition, but about health generally and it will also make you look very carefully at anything that is put forward as 'fact' by so-called experts.

Two of the most revealing and fascinating (if also somewhat scary) things it shows are how people who are very expert and very close to a topic can so often fail to see the woods for the trees, and how the experts who are called upon to make pronouncements and decisions which have a far reaching effect on society often are not that expert at all and/or are pushing agendas.

The world of science is very political, full of clicques and inner circles and people who are terribly protective of their own patches. They don't always have the greater good at the forefront of their minds.

I honestly believe that every doctor, no matter what their discipline, and every person who is involved in creating or contributing to health policy formulation should be MADE to read this book. Whether they agree with it's central thesis or not is almost irrelevant - it might at least encourage them to approach their decision making in a more open minded fashion.