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    Trick and Treat: how 'healthy eating' is making us ill

    By Barry Groves and Howel Buckland Jones

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    Trick and Treat asks the key quetions: has 'healthy eating' coincided with a reduction in health problems and health spending? Who benefits from the effects of 'healthy eating'? What is the evidence to support the principles of 'healthy eating'? If 'healthy eating' isn't healthy, what is? Barry Groves brings together over a century of relevant findings, including classic papers and the latest research, to examine each of these issues in depth. He concludes that there is a simple, evidence-based alternative approach that will allow us to take charge of our own health.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHammersmith Health Books
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781781610060
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    Trick and Treat: how 'healthy eating' is making us ill
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    Barry Groves

    After twenty-seven years as an electronic engineer in the RAF, the late Barry Groves began research into the role of diet in modern diseases. This research led to the publication of several books including The Calorie Fallacy and the international bestseller Eat Fat, Get Thin. In 2002 he won the Sophie Coe Prize at the Oxford Symposium on Food History and was awarded a doctorate in nutritional science from Trinity College and University, USA, for his fluoride work. He was a founder member of the Fluoride Action Network, a director of the Foundation for Thymic Cancer Research and a founder member of The International Network of Cholesterol Sceptics. Groves also wrote about dietary and health matters for several health-related magazines as well as the Weekend Financial Times and The Oxford Times.

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    • 2/5
      While I think there is a lot of good information in the book, I do not think it is as approachable as it could be. It reads like a textbook, and even the size is intimidating. Compare this to one of my favorite books, "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy". The book is 1/3 the size and written in a much more friendly tone.While I think the author has some good intentions, I do not think the book will reach a new audience. The only people I see wanting to read it are those who are already in the know and want to learn more, not someone who is looking for more information
    • 1/5
      Hell have no fury as a man scorned...or in Barry Groves' case - perceived as scorned.Trick and Treat is a deeply researched book on the benefits of a high fat, low carb diet. If that does seem that novel it is because these days it really is not. I was selected for this book as in my library are a slew of diet books that I read to aid my husband in his weight loss. None of them - or indeed the diabetic nutritionist he saw - contradict the fundamentals of Groves ideas. Indeed the rise of Michael Pollan - type books supporting local eating and 100 mile diets - render even deeper support to Groves concept. The first problem with the book is that Groves completely fails to recognize this. He acts as though he is a man on a mission to save the world from the nutrition establishment - and indeed the entire medical world. So he quotes Walter Willett (the author of a best selling book with the Harvard Med School moniker) but fails to mention the gravitas on the author and hence minimize the impact of the quote. He fails to mention Atkins, South Beach, or indeed the local food movement - I assume this is only because it diminuishes his claim to uniqueness - or because he has quibbles with the suggested amount of fat in their diet...The second problem with the book is that while it is deeply researched - and no one can claim Groves is lacking references - the writing up on the references is is wholly amateur. In the medical field one can probably find a reference to prove (or disprove) pretty much any hypothesis. The critical point in introducing the references therefore is to contextualize the reference in terms of contradictory references. Between the two competing theories, which reference has the largest cohorts, the greatest specificity and sensitivity in the result etc. By failing to mention studies that contradict his ideas, the reader gets the distinct impression he simply combed the literature to prove his point, not that he research concepts and derived a conclusion. This problem comes off worst when he is blaming a high carb diet for seemingly every disease under the sun. Failing to discuss other habits of modern life that might result in an increase in certain diseases (including longer life spans...) and ascribing increases as wholy the results of diet demonstrates a failure to grasp the notion of different extent of correlation between variable cause. A similar habit that comes off as amateur is his intersperstion of datum amoungst his research. While he did not write "Uncle John smoked for 40 years and did not die of lung cancer, therefore smoking does not cause lung cancer" - he did write similar sentences about eating habits. He also failed to differentiate between existent and non existent data. I admit I have problems when people make statements like - did not exist centuries ago, or does not exist in primitive people. Did it not exist centuries ago - or was it not diagnosed at a time when few people had proper medical care? How does how presen system of early testing (and as he mentions lowering the numbers to get a diagnosis) skew such comments? How has the lack of exercise in our modern culture altered the effect of diet?The third problem with the book - which I alluded to above - is that rather than stopping at a legimate and broadly acknowledged failure of nutritionists to correctly predict the ramifications of a low fat, high carb diet - he, in a wholly unfocused manner questions every aspect of the medical profession. As again, he does so using his selective and uncritical quotations of the medical literature, and hence it comes off as more as a tiresome tirade of a man on a mission than useful and enlightening information to the reader. It took me forever to finish this book and I never would have finsihed had it not been an earlier reviewer copy. Walter Willett is the man to read if you are interested in diets.
    • 4/5
      In "Trick and Treat: How ‘Healthy Eating’ is Making us Ill", Barry Groves blames the current health crisis in modern western society on three things: the pervasive high-carbohydrate, low fat diet; governmental interference in health care; and a health/pharmaceutical industry that capitalizes on the situation by promoting unhealthy practices, and then treating the disease conditions that result. "Trick and Treat" is divided into two parts. Part One describes the corruption in the health industry, points out the problems inherent in a high-carb, low-fat diet, and then prescribes a diet that leads to good health. The prescribed diet is high in fat – specifically animal fat, not polyunsaturated vegetable fat – and low in carbohydrates, with 60-70% of calories from fat, 15-25% of calories from protein, and a mere 10-15% of calories from carbohydrates. Part Two describes numerous diseases the author claims are the result of high carbohydrate consumption. These range from life-threatening disorders such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer to less serious problems such as acne, near-sightedness and dental problems. Groves not only turns the current thinking about what comprises a healthy diet upside-down, but also refutes many other widely-held beliefs about health. He tells us to restrict or eliminate bran from our diets, but not to worry about our sodium intake. He is a proponent of sun exposure, but suggests that we forego sunscreens, and says that while exercise may increase fitness, it has minimal health benefits. Although many of Groves’ assertions are unorthodox, they appear to be well-researched and documented. There are over 50 pages of references. The book also contains a glossary, an appendix, and an index."Trick and Treat" is an illuminating albeit controversial book. Groves’ arguments are quite convincing, but not easy to completely accept without further investigation. In the meantime, having never been a "fat-fan", I will continue to remove skin from poultry and fat from beef, but plan to enjoy a bacon and egg breakfast on the nearest occasion.
    • 5/5
      Forget what you know about living a healthy lifestyle. It’s likely wrong—and killing you. That is the clear message in the book "Trick and Treat" by Barry Groves. A quick perusal of the abstracts at the start of each chapter makes it easy to dismiss Groves as some contrarious crank. But read on. This guy has done his homework (there are 53 pages of citations). In a clear, methodical, detailed style, Groves compiles the evidence against today’s multi-billion dollar health industry.I didn’t have to read much of the book before I became angry. At first I was angry at Groves for calling into question everything I have come to believe about living a healthy lifestyle. He advocates eating meat not vegetables. Replace your bran breakfast with eggs and bacon. Scrap the margarine and vegetable oils and use butter. Sunbathe without the sunscreen. This guy must be crazy. But as I continued to read, his arguments continued to make more sense. After all, why should we humans suddenly change a diet that has carried us through our evolutionary development? And is it a coincidence that the rise of obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and a host of other ailments coincide with our obsession with “healthy” eating? Not according to the extensive evidence compiled by Groves. My anger eventually became aimed at the professionals and government that persuaded me to believe in an unnatural “healthy” lifestyle. I ended my reading of this book curious to know more about Groves’s recommendations.I found "Trick and Treat" exhausting to read. It seems Groves has found every possible study that supports his premise from the past two centuries and includes all of them in his book. But he has a way of explaining the complexities of human physiology and biochemistry that make these subjects understandable to the layperson. I was frustrated, though, that there were not more details included in the book about how to return to a more human-friendly diet. I suppose I will need to read one of his other books for that information. After reading "Trick and Treat," I am eager to do so.