Cupcake wrote:Thanks, Spiral, for discussing these wonderful videos here. A few months ago, I watched them up to the 9th video that you talk about at the top of this page. You summarize them very well. I need to go back and start watching with the 10th in the series and continue.
The main thing I learned from PP was that there is so much misinformation out there in the popular diet press. PP was ruthless in tracking down references and checking facts. Which is what we should all be.
This week, I got out a new book by John Ratey called Go Wild. As I had loved Dr. Ratey's previous book Spark, I had high hopes for this one. I started getting a sinking feeling when I saw that the Forward was written by Dr. Perlmutter. Then I scanned the chapter on food and it would appear it's a retread of Good Calories Bad Calories, quoting Gary Taubes by name. Very, very disappointed in Dr. Ratey. He really should fact-check at least as well as Plant Positive, a blogger on the internet.
Cupcake,
Thanks for the accolade. I had intended to review each of the videos in that video series. But I got bogged down with other things and never finished it.
It really is mind-boggling when you consider how much information this Plant Positive guy had to wade through in order to track down all of the distortions that Gary Taubes, Robert Lustig and others have made over the years. I've wondered if Plant Positive is just one guy or a team of people who like to do research on nutrition controversies. We might never know, as long as Plant Positive keeps his identity secret.