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It’s not so much what you eat, but what you don’t eat
When I was writing for the opinion section of The New York Times, I had a number of close advisers. On nutrition matters, I came to rely more and more heavily on David Katz. Later, we became friends and, in 2018, I asked him to sit down and talk with me about how we should be eating, for a Grub Street piece that ran (untruthfully) as “The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right.”
The response was tremendous — it was one of the most-read articles of the year. Not just in food, not just for New York Magazine, but online, period.
What we didn’t realize until then was the degree to which people are looking for guidance on how to eat from people they can trust. And that we qualified.
The net result is our new book, “How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered.” In it, we answer what we hope are the most pressing questions about diet that confront many readers. We think it’s a useful tool to understand, commit to, and maintain a truly healthy diet, and one that will serve as a useful counter to all the bullshit out there. Here’s our fourth excerpt.
