The thing that stands out to me as I read this book is that it's all food. Just food. There are some things that have been surprising (natural beef may not be as natural as you think) some things that have been a bit disheartening (every food has its own powerful lobbying body, and profit battles constantly with the public health greater good) but for the most part, the thing I am taking away from it is that there are no wonder foods, and with few exceptions, there are no purely evil foods.
As long as you vary your diet, don't eat or drink too much, and eat plenty of fresh vegetables, you're going to be ok. If you have a candy bar every once in a while, it's not going to make you self destruct.
As she says in the introduction, food should be pleasurable. It's not a pleasure to run around like Kentucky-Fried-Chicken-Little, worrying about the hydrogenated sky falling one minute, and whether soy will give men breasts the next. It's food. Don't overdo it. Relax. Eat what's good, and what's good for you. It helps that she's been a nutritionist for 30 years, and she knows what she's talking about. Whew.
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