Full of great and memorable anecdotes about how the human relationship with food has evolved -- for the worse, in the Western world in the last hundred years. How grain used to turn rancid a few days after it was turned into flour because it was ground with stone and still had yellow husks in it, and at the turn of the industrial revolution we could all use steel to make the powdery white flour that only the rich had before! Of course, the reason the powdery white stuff didn't go bad is because without the whole grain, it has almost no nutrients and pests didn't care about something that gave them no sustenance. Do we humans care about that? No! Wonderbread for the win!

Some of his research seems a little flaky though. He says that people didn't have tooth decay or need dentists to have healthy teeth before the turn of the 20th cen., but isn't that debatable, given the amount of pictures from that time of toothless commoners? He also makes big of the fact that heart attacks, diabetes and high blood pressure are all new, and thanks to our bad relationship with food, and that even people pre-1900 who did live into their 60s and 70s did not meet such fates. Do we know that doctors even would have been able to diagnose a heart attack or high blood pressure in the 1800s?

But I'm now buying whole milk again instead of skim (omg so delicious) because almost all of the value we get from milk is in the form of fat-soluble nutrients. I want to put stickers on all the non-fat dairy in the store that say "I won't let you absorb my calcium!"