How to Eat is the title of a book by Dr. David Katz and colleague Mark Bittman. Curious, I bought it on Kindle. It has a Q&A format that soon made me feel like an idiot child asking grandpa to explain everything. But then, I’m coming from a background of considerable reading on the topic.

I wanted to capture a quote from the summary comments at the end, but I can’t seem to paste it here. However, the gist of it is, after a couple hundred pages:
Don’t eat industrial crap. Don’t pay attention to diet fads. Use common sense.

This is pretty good advice, as far as it goes. However, like many medical “experts” who have no clinical experience with lifelong obesity, or other weight management challenges, they (he, as Katz seems to be the chief author) dismiss out of hand the overwhelming “epidemiological” (a way of science he actually believes in) evidence for alternative dietary choices, like low-carb in all its permutations.

His focus on “balance” never really comes into focus. Those of us who have spent years learning to count stuff like calories, carbs, macros, and micronutrients might have a reason to think he makes it sound too easy.

Aside from my prejudice about low-carbohydrate eating, this book is exactly the thing he criticizes: a book with a catchy title intended to make money. Doesn’t matter that his “idea” is nothing new, as he admits. I say it was a lesson learned (by me) for only ten bucks. You can save that much at least.