Proteinaholic : how our obsession with meat is killing us and what we can do about it
(2015)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
613.282/DAVIS,G

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 613.282/DAVIS,G Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
©2015
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

377 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780062279309, 0062279300, 9780062279316, 0062279319, 9780062279309, 0062279300 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Part I Garth Davis, Proteinaholic -- 1 I'm Garth, and I'm a Proteinaholic -- 2 My Road to Ruin -- 3 My Quest for the Ideal Human Diet -- Part II How We Became Proteinaholics -- 4 The History of Protein -- 5 Protein Usurps the Nutritional Throne -- 6 To Atkins and Beyond -- 7 The Latest Flavor -- Part III Death and Diseas by Protein -- 8 Research Truth and BS: How to Speak Science -- 9 Diabetes: It's the Meat That Makes You Sweet -- 10 Hypertension: Protein Puts Us Under Pressure -- 11 Heart Disease: Skip the Meat, Keep the Beat -- 12 Obesity: It's Not About the Carbs -- 13: Cancer: Fleshing Out the Protein Connection -- 14 Preventing Premature Death -- Part IV The Problematic Recovery Plan -- 15 How Much Protein Do We Need? -- 16 Reducing Animal Protein: The Why, How, and What -- 17 Meal Plan -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography/References

"An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight,"--Amazon.com

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