`Eat like animals: what nature teaches us about the science of healthy eating'. David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2020. (bibtex)
by Jonathan Wells
Abstract:
With all the burgeoning new methods, not to mention an ever-increasing number of conceptual frameworks, it often feels as if modern science is fulfilling the fear of Konrad Lorenz—that `scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing'. As a field, nutrition often seems prone to this scenario, with studies of meals disregarded in favour of foods, disregarded in favour of nutrients, disregarded in favour of cellular signalling, finally disregarded in the last few years in favour of the microbiota. Meanwhile, with all this stellar technological progress, ever more people worldwide are becoming overweight and obese, raising the risk of many diseases.
Reference:
`Eat like animals: what nature teaches us about the science of healthy eating'. David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2020. (Jonathan Wells), In Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, volume 9, 2021.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{10.1093/emph/eoab024,
	abstract = {{With all the burgeoning new methods, not to mention an ever-increasing number of conceptual frameworks, it often feels as if modern science is fulfilling the fear of Konrad Lorenz---that `scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing'. As a field, nutrition often seems prone to this scenario, with studies of meals disregarded in favour of foods, disregarded in favour of nutrients, disregarded in favour of cellular signalling, finally disregarded in the last few years in favour of the microbiota. Meanwhile, with all this stellar technological progress, ever more people worldwide are becoming overweight and obese, raising the risk of many diseases.}},
	author = {Wells, Jonathan},
	date-added = {2023-05-27 12:34:46 +0100},
	date-modified = {2023-05-27 12:35:01 +0100},
	doi = {10.1093/emph/eoab024},
	eprint = {https://academic.oup.com/emph/article-pdf/9/1/292/40634278/eoab024.pdf},
	issn = {2050-6201},
	journal = {Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health},
	keywords = {Book},
	number = {1},
	pages = {292-294},
	title = {{`Eat like animals: what nature teaches us about the science of healthy eating'. David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2020.}},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab024},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2021},
	bdsk-url-1 = {https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab024}}
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