This is the ONLY book I've ever read on nutrition (and I've read probably 50 or so) that traces the history of how we got to believing the absolute nonesense that we do about eating. Namely that carbohydrates are good for us and fats are bad.

The author carefully researches the history of nutrition and endocrynology (he is a writer for Science Magazine), putting the studies into the context of what was known at the time.

In the end, we see nutrition research as mostly controlled by a few large egos that ignore any research that is counter to theirs, and cause the absolutely wrong conclusions to be spread through our society. It isn't science at all, but beliefs being marketed as facts. I've already given most of the books in my collection away, as they aren't needed after digesting (pun intended) the contents of Mr Taubes' excellent book.