RaveThe Star TribuneGoes deep on the history of eating, the biology of nutrition and addiction and the laboratory science that produced foods like maltodextrin and xanthan gum. Despite the technical material, the book is highly readable and van Tulleken — physician, scientist and popular BBC personality — writes with the confidence of a doctor who has a reassuring bedside manner ... Van Tulleken weaves in charming anecdotes about eating breakfast with his young daughters, one of whom gorges on five bowls of Cocoa Puffs, and recounts his own struggle to complete the 30-day diet. Without giving away the ending, let\'s just say he discovers that the diet has corrupted almost every organ of his body ... Read his book and you\'ll never read a food label quite the same way again
Elizabeth Rush
PositiveMinneapolis Star TribuneReading her book is like learning ecology at the feet of a poet rather than a scientist ... An empathetic writer and observer, Rush hints that she is learning alongside you ... Rush’s literary framing does not always succeed. Her detours into memoir, though brief, can be distracting rather than enlightening ... Nonetheless, this is a lovely and thoughtful book, so lyrical that you forget how much science it delivers.
