Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating is Making Us Ill

Barry Groves

ISBN 10: 1905140223 / ISBN 13: 9781905140220

Published by Hammersmith Press Limited 30/10/2008, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating is Making Us Ill
• Publisher: Hammersmith Press Limited 30/10/2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905140223
• ISBN 13: 9781905140220
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Few people have 'old age' as a cause of death on their death certificate. Today, we die of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, osteoporosis, diabetes - And we accept these conditions as normal causes of death.They aren't - and neither is the ill-health, pain and discomfort that make our later years a misery.

In this controversial, evidence-based account of how and why the health-care establishment has got the concept of 'healthy eating' so wrong, Barry Groves shows us how to take charge of our own health and lives, in contravention of what the health-care industry would have us believe and do.

About the Author

Barry Groves could rightfully claim to be Britain's leading exponent of the low-carb way of life, introducing this to the general public in his writing in the 1990s. He lived on, researched, lectured and wrote about it for well over 40 years and conquered his family's time bomb of death through heart disease in the early 50s to live to 77. He and wife Monica were overweight from 1957 to 1962, when he discovered the low-carb regime for weight loss. It worked; theywere never overweight again and Monica continues to thrive on this lifestyle. This discovery started his questioning of conventional diets. As a consequence he took up full-time research into the relationship between diet and 'diseases of civilisation' such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. As a result of his researches, he realised that the perceived wisdom, both of low-calorie dieting for weight loss and 'healthy eating' for the control of heart disease, was seriously flawed. Trick & Treat is the most comprehensive account of his findings.