This book provides insight regarding how scientific data is collected, disseminated, and consumed regarding ingredients. The author shares the journey of uncovering information about what we eat, drink, inhale, and put on our bodies.
He offers this summation: “Pay attention to safety alerts from the CDC or the FDA. Other than that, if you read something about food and health—especially individual foods, like kale and eggs—on the Internet, treat it like a kitten: have fun playing with it, but don’t let it change your life” (245).
I would only recommend this book to someone who wants the details on why you cannot believe every headline or study that comes out, especially regarding food.
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Zaidan, G. (2020). Ingredients: The strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us. New York: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC.
