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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 12 : 1160
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

BOOK REVIEWS

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

John Swartzberg and Sheldon Margen

School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720

"Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy": Is this just another book with a catchy title telling us what to eat? The public is inundated with these tomes promising us the "truth" about nutrition and health. At best, the vast majority of these works are naive and proselytizing; at worst, they are disingenuous and deceitful manipulations of science. So, what does Dr. Walter Willett's book have in common with these other works? Absolutely nothing. Here is one of the few books on nutrition and health written for the lay public that is based on a careful and thoughtful analysis of (of all things) science!

Nothing is particularly new or unusual about this book—and that is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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