There are a number of best-selling books internationally at the moment, as well as a book in South Africa by Dr Tim Noakes which deals with a similar issue with regard to what we eat and should be eating.  It seems that there is now a clear understanding that our diet, which we have been encouraged to eat over the last few decades, has been incorrect and based on faulty research and data.  One book after another is coming out largely with the same theme and that is to almost totally remove carbohydrates from your diet, eat more proteins and cook your food where possible in more natural fats such as lard or butter and avoid the various sunflower oils, etc.  

The evidence seems to be incontrovertible, and some of the books detail at great length precisely how we have been misled in the past, sometimes without any scientific basis at all or incomplete research, and it is quite frightening how many big companies essentially make a living out of catering to our food addiction.  I think it is clear that there is going to be a bigger swing in the future towards dealing with overeating and incorrect eating as an addiction, because it clearly is, and we are unfortunately hooked by sugar and salt into eating a variety of food that is not good for our bodies.  

I am going to get back to this issue again in my blog and deal with some of the specific books but for now I will name just two of them, starting with Grain Brain by Dr David Perlmutter.  He is a neurologist who has written a very important book, and a very detailed book, which sets out chapter and verse with over a hundred pages of footnotes and references to precisely how misinformation about saturated fats gained pound in a scientific community, how those beliefs have been overturned and how the Mediterranean diet is not the healthiest.  The second book is called The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Tiecholz and I will hopefully deal more with that at a later stage, save but to say that she says go ahead and have juicy steaks whenever you want, and don’t cut the fat off and that bacon and eggs are far better for you for breakfast than a carbohydrate-based cereal.  What I find most impressive by both of these books is, like the book Every Shot Counts for golf, that once you’ve read them they really do give you chapter and verse as to precisely how some beliefs came about, how they have been scientifically rubbished and that like old wives’ tales about eating fish when you are pregnant, they have no factual basis at all.  Many companies and “experts” have major commercial interest in you continuing to believe that drinking that drink in a can, or eating those chips and biscuits are not that bad – but they are - and you are poisoning your system and being exploited by those companies who are selling you rubbish and which you are paying for.