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Dr Gillian McKeith's Living Food for Health: 12 Natural Superfoods to Transform Your Health

 
Dr Gillian McKeith's Living Food for Health: 12 Natural Superfoods to Transform Your Health book cover
This "superfood" business is more of McKeith's pseudoscientific nonsense. There are no miracle cures, it's just an attempt to offer easy answers, many of which are not true (such as her exaggerated claims of the benefits of flax which is largely undigestable). If you're looking for dietary advice you need a dietician. Nutrionist is a made up word - anybody can call themselves a nutrionist (and a lot of nobodies do). Yes somewhere at the heart of what she says there is sensible dietary advice - eat fruit & veg. not burgers and ready meals. Like most diets her advice is just a faddish way of dressing this up but with the addition of some nonsense pseudoscientific explanations of why it might work. She insists it is better to eat food raw because we need the enzymes. These are destroyed in your stomach and broken down before you absorb them. However there are few more vitamins in uncooked veg. than in cooked. But why can't she say that instrad of making up nonsense? She believes ... read more.

Written by Gillian McKeith.
Published 29 April 2004.
Published by Piatkus Books.
rrp £7.99.
192 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 074992540X
ISBN-13: 9780749925406
 
 
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