This book was surprisingly good!

While it sticks to mainstream RDAs and doesn’t claim any disease reversals, the book goes into the many documented benefits of the main essential nutrients.

I don’t agree with everything in the book, but it was a very good introduction to basic nutrition. Many books like this are way too short, and many books emphasize a handful of nutrients and neglect the others.

Even if you’re an “idiot”, this book will most likely leave you more knowledgeable about nutrition than your doctor. Even if I disagree with several points in the book, following this text will give you much better results than mainstream medicine.

I do wish this book had a reference section. It gives you basic details about most of the studies mentioned, but not actual citations. I get that this is part of the stripped-down “idiots guide” format, but it would be easy to include references at the end.

I do recommend!