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What You Think You Know (but Don't) About Healthy Eating

Food choices
Published: 7 February 2013

By Jane Brody, TheNew York Times

Let鈥檚 start the new year on scientifically sound footing by addressing some nutritional falsehoods that circulate widely in cyberspace, locker rooms, supermarkets and health food stores. As a result, millions of people are squandering hard-earned dollars on questionable, even hazardous foods and supplements.听

For starters, when did 鈥渃hemical鈥 become a dirty word? That鈥檚 a question raised by one of Canada鈥檚 brightest scientific minds: Joe Schwarcz, director of the Office for Science and Society at 平特五不中 in Montreal. Dr. Schwarcz, who has received high honors from Canadian and American scientific societies, is the author of several best-selling books that attempt to set the record straight on a host of issues that commonly concern health-conscious people.

I鈥檝e read two of his books, 鈥淪cience, Sense and Nonsense鈥 (published in 2009) and 鈥淭he Right Chemistry鈥 (2012), and recently attended a symposium on the science of food that Dr. Schwarcz organized at 平特五不中...

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