Alan Levinovitz: The Gluten Lie

Alan Levinovitz stops by the podcast to discuss his controversial book The Gluten Lie and Other Myths About What You Eat. 

 

Here's what we talked about: 

 

3:25 – Why a philosopher and religion professor wrote a nutrition book and how food and religion have more in common than you might think!

 

8:15 – Are modern times really so bad? The myth of paradise past and how food technologies might be helping us more than they hurt. 

 

11:15 – What paleo is, what it isn’t, and why “eat in moderation” doesn’t work. 

 

12:50 – Where is the science? Why it’s so hard to get clear evidence on food and nutrition and whether or not we’ll ever have any answers. 

 

19:25 – Science vs. sensationalism: mis-reporting in the media and what the scientists really have to say about their nutrition studies. 

 

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