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V for Velveeta! Enjoyed this book and it really showed a better way of mixing health and sanity (Thank God I can find a balance that would still allow me to have a cup of coffee, a drink, candy bar or to try the newest potato chips. Those Zapp's Evil Eye Kettle Style Potato Chips are fantastic!). Also , this last section gave me one my favorite detours in the book The Case of the Missing Bite (Dun Dun Dun). Finally, it totally rocked that the author took time to answer some of our questions and the Everything-Is-Fine-Just-Don't-Eat-Too-Fucking-Much-Diet is as good as any to follow (with exercise and no smoking of course).

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Thanks for the answer, George! I definitely went into the book hoping for those perfect answers but appreciated the through explanation for why most nutrition research is incredibly difficult to parse. There's so many things to be skeptical about, it's almost comforting that there's not a straightforward method of eating. Except the Zaidan Diet, I've heard nothing but good things about that method.

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I loved how he got into food frequency questionaires, because having worked on a big project all about them and having taken one myself it's truly disconcerting we base our entire food research system on it.

(The story was by Christie Aschwandan and also gets into dreaded p-hacking https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/ it's a great read if you enjoyed the book and there's an accompanying video all about the FFQ that i was in https://abcnews.go.com/fivethirtyeight/video/fivethirtyeight-problem-nutrition-studies-56038322)

I really enjoyed the advice towards the end -- stopping smoking, good thing, you should do that -- and definitely came a way with a more nuanced view about food science than I entered with. Given that my hometown's primary claim to fame is "invented Velveeta" i'm delighted I don't need to eject it from my diet.

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