But this book is also concerned with the beliefs about nutrition that underlie those things: where the belief that carbs are bad came from, and why it has persisted despite so much evidence to the contrary. We’ll discuss why the low-carb diet is so appealing, how we’ve been tricked in thinking it’s healthy, and the truth about its health impacts. Our national weight problem is just the tip of the iceberg, however being overweight is linked to some of the major causes of premature death, including heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, and some cancers.2 This book is primarily about low-carb diets-one of the more financially successful, and one of the most healththreatening, solutions proposed to meet our desire to shed pounds and become healthier. And despite hundreds of new (or cleverly recycled) “solutions” hitting the shelves in book or prepackaged food form each year, we just can’t seem to stem the tide.

Since 1980, when the rise in obesity first caught the attention of the media, the national rate of obesity has doubled.1 Now, more than one-third of all U.S. T’s no secret that Americans struggle with weight loss. To the promoters of the “low-carb” diet who prompted me to write this bookĬONTENTS The Low-Carb Fraud Appendix: The Paleo Diet Preview of Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition Acknowledgments About the Authors Endnotes Index Please contact G lenn Yef f eth at or 21. Signif icant discounts f or bulk sales are available. P rinted by Bang P rinting Distributed by P erseus Distribution To place orders through P erseus Distribution: Tel: 80 Fax: 80 E-mail: Cover image by Getty Images Cover design by Bradford Foltz Jacket design by Sarah Dombrowsky Text design and composition by P ublishers’ Design and P roduction Services, RM237.73.C36 2014 613.2’ 833-dc23 2013037793 Copyediting by Oriana Leckert P roofreading by Chris Gage and Amy Zarkos Indexing by Clive P yne Book Indexing Services, Inc. Colin Campbell, P hD, with Howard Jacobson, P hD.

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