A Grain of Salt
The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat
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Dr. Joe Schwarcz
About this listen
A curated collection of new and updated Dr. Joe essays on food and nutrition
Of all the dietary and nutritional claims pitched to us, what can we believe? How does cinnamon affect your health? How splendid is Splenda? Should you buy farmed, wild, or canned food? What's fishy about fish-oil supplements? Will a diet of Twinkies and M&M's lead to weight loss? Water from a tap or from a plastic bottle - which should you choose, and which is better for the environment? Should you carry your groceries home in plastic or brown paper? We all have questions, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz has the answers, some of which will astonish you.
Guaranteed to satisfy your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information, best-selling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz separates fact from fiction in this collection of new and updated articles about what to eat, what not to eat, and how to recognize the scientific basis of food chemistry.
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Since the introduction of dietary guidelines calling for reduced fat intake in the 1970s, a strange phenomenon has occurred: Americans have steadily, inexorably become heavier, less healthy, and more prone to diabetes than ever before. After putting more than two thousand of his at-risk patients on a wheat-free regimen and seeing extraordinary results, cardiologist William Davis has come to the disturbing conclusion that it is not fat, not sugar, not our sedentary lifestyle that is causing America’s obesity epidemic—it is wheat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Raw vegetables, eggs, meat and cheese
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-27-12
By: William David MD
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Nourishing Diets
- By: Sally Fallon Morell
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story5 out of 5 stars 65
In Nourishing Diets best-selling author Sally Fallon Morell explores the diets of our primitive ancestors from around the world - from Australian Aborigines and pre-industrialized Europeans to the inhabitants of "Blue Zones" where a high percentage of the populations live to 100 years or more. In looking to the recipes and foods of the past, Fallon Morell points listeners to what they should actually be eating - the key principles of traditional diets from across cultures - and offers recipes to help translate these ideas to the modern home cook.
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5 out of 5 stars
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...more precious than gold.
- By Ryan Barr on 08-11-18
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Sugar Crush
- How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health
- By: Dr. Richard Jacoby, Raquel Baldelomar
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story5 out of 5 stars 83
If you suffer from ailments your doctors can't seem to diagnose or help - mysterious rashes, unpredictable digestive problems, debilitating headaches, mood and energy swings, constant tiredness - nerve compression is the likely cause. Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in sugar, processed carbohydrates, and wheat compresses and damages the peripheral nerves of the body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome info
- By Anonymous User on 01-28-21
By: Dr. Richard Jacoby, and others
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Regenerate
- Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience Through the New Biology
- By: Sayer Ji
- Narrated by: Sayer Ji
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 139
Combining analysis of cutting-edge scientific findings with our deepest ancestral wisdom and health-promoting practices, Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo, offers a time-tested program to help prevent and manage the most common health afflictions of our day-cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and metabolic syndrome. Antiquated thinking and scientific dogma have long obstructed our understanding of our innate untapped potential for self-regeneration and radical healing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Factually Informative!
- By Anonymous User on 07-02-20
By: Sayer Ji
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Proteinaholic
- How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
- By: Garth Davis MD
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,078
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Story5 out of 5 stars 950
Whether you are seeing a doctor, a nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise eating more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use protein for weight control while others believe it gives them more energy. Now, weight loss expert Dr. Garth Davis asks, "Is all this protein making us healthier?" The answer, he emphatically argues, is no.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Want to know more about your health?
- By Anonymous User on 01-27-17
By: Garth Davis MD
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Feeding You Lies
- How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health
- By: Vani Hari
- Narrated by: Vani Hari
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story5 out of 5 stars 110
There's so much confusion about what to eat. Are you jumping from diet to diet and nothing seems to work? Are you sick of seeing contradictory health advice from experts? Just like the tobacco industry lied to us about the dangers of cigarettes, the same untruths, cover-ups, and deceptive practices are occurring in the food industry. Vani Hari, a.k.a. The Food Babe, blows the lid off the lies we've been fed about the food we eat - lies about its nutrient value, effects on our health, label information, and even the very science we base our food choices on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why taken off?!
- By Hannah Gray on 08-01-19
By: Vani Hari
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Blood Pressure Down
- The 10-Step Plan to Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Weeks - Without Prescription Drugs
- By: Janet Bond Brill PhD RD LDN, Emil M. de Goma MD
- Narrated by: Virginia Wolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
If you have high blood pressure, you're not alone: nearly a third of adult Americans have been diagnosed with hypertension, and another quarter are well on their way. Yet a whopping 56 percent of diagnosed patients do not have it under control. The good news? Hypertension is easily treatable (and preventable), and you can take action today to bring your blood pressure down in just four weeks - without the potential dangers and side effects of prescription medications.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Blood Pressure down.
- By BARBARA K JENSEN on 09-18-18
By: Janet Bond Brill PhD RD LDN, and others
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No Grain, No Pain
- A 30-Day Diet for Eliminating the Root Cause of Chronic Pain
- By: Dr. Peter Osborne
- Narrated by: Mick Stephenson
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, according to an Institute of Medicine report released in 2011. For many, chronic pain is part of an autoimmune disease, but all too often doctors turn to the same solution: painkilling drugs. But all of this medication simply isn't helping. As Dr. Peter Osborne, the leading authority on gluten sensitivity and food allergies, has found, the real solution often lies in what you eat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a Pain to listen to
- By Anonymous User on 05-24-16
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The Autoimmune Fix
- How to Stop the Hidden Autoimmune Damage That Keeps You Sick, Fat, and Tired Before It Turns Into Disease
- By: Tom O'Bryan DC CCN DACBN
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 322
Millions of people suffer from autoimmunity whether they know it or not. The root cause of most weight gain, brain and mood problems, and fatigue, autoimmunity can take years - or even decades - for symptoms and a clear diagnosis to arise. Through years of research, Dr. Tom O'Bryan has discovered that autoimmunity is actually a spectrum, and many people experiencing general malaise are already on it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book just missed a couple things
- By Anonymous User on 03-27-18
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Gutbliss
- A 10-Day Plan to Ban Bloat, Flush Toxins, and Dump Your Digestive Baggage
- By: Dr. Robynne Chutkan
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Many so-called cures for women's bloating and indigestion, from juice cleanses to specialty diets, are based on junk science. For women seeking true relief from that overall feeling of discomfort in any size jeans, Dr. Robynne Chutkan has the perfect plan for feeling light, tight, and bright in 10 days.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Buy the book instead!
- By Anonymous User on 08-13-16
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The Seven Pillars of Health
- The Natural Way to Better Health for Life
- By: Don Colbert
- Narrated by: Jon Gauger
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Seven Pillars of Health A seven-week journey to great health. Americans are the unhealthiest people in the world! Dr. Don Colbert is on a mission to turn that around. His 50-day plan provides information that will not only change your life but also challenge your thinking, motivate you, and impact your entire community-forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 08-24-17
By: Don Colbert
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The Coconut Oil Miracle - 5th Edition
- By: Bruce Fife CN/ND
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
For years, The Coconut Oil Miracle has been a reliable guide for men and women alike. Now in its fifth edition, this revised and updated version has even more information on the benefits of coconut oil and shows listeners how to use it for maximum effect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Cocount is good for you
- By Anonymous User on 10-05-15
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What When Wine
- Lose Weight and Feel Great with Paleo-Style Meals, Intermittent Fasting, and Wine
- By: Melanie Avalon, Sarah Fragoso - foreword
- Narrated by: Melanie Avalon, Emily Woo Zeller
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Is it possible to eat well, drink wine, and still lose weight? Melanie Avalon is living proof that it's not only possible, it's unbelievably simple and straightforward. It's all about the what (mostly paleo, but she's not a monster about it), the when (believe it or not, brief fasting can mean freedom rather than restriction), and the wine (red wine can be a secret bullet for weight loss - who knew?). It's a combination that Avalon discovered after years of self-experimentation and intense research on the mechanics of body fat regulation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Decent
- By Anonymous User on 02-22-19
By: Melanie Avalon, and others
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KetoFast
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- By: Dr. Joseph Mercola
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 243
In this in-depth yet accessible guide, Dr. Joseph Mercola explores the profound health benefits that result when ketogenic living and well-planned fasting are combined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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BUY THE HARDCOPY - not the Audio
- By Anonymous User on 05-05-19
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Chris Beat Cancer
- A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally
- By: Chris Wark
- Narrated by: Chris Wark
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 671
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 598
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Story5 out of 5 stars 598
Two days before Christmas and at 26 years old, Chris Wark was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. He had surgery to remove a golf ball-sized tumor and a third of his colon. But after surgery, instead of the traditional chemotherapy, Wark decided to radically change his diet and lifestyle in order to promote health and healing in his body. In Chris Beat Cancer, Wark describes his healing journey, exposes the corruption and ineffectiveness of the medical and cancer industries, and shares the strategies that he and many others have used to heal cancer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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sale's pitch
- By Anonymous User on 10-16-19
By: Chris Wark
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Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox
- How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life
- By: Kate Rhéaume-Bleue BSc ND
- Narrated by: Virginia Wolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Story5 out of 5 stars 141
Are you taking calcium or vitamin D? This book could save your life! Learn the secret to avoiding osteoporosis and heart disease. Millions of people take calcium and Vitamin D supplements thinking they're helping their bones. The truth is, without the addition of Vitamin K2, such a health regimen could prove dangerous. Without Vitamin K2, the body cannot direct calcium to the bones where it's needed; instead, the calcium resides in soft tissue, like the arteries, leading to a combination of osteoporosis and atherosclerosis, or the dreaded "calcium paradox".
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5 out of 5 stars
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I CANNOT APPLAUD THIS BOOK ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!
- By Anonymous User on 03-22-19
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Think and Eat Yourself Smart
- A Neuroscientific Approach to a Sharper Mind and Healthier Life
- By: Dr. Caroline Leaf
- Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 330
Science is beginning to understand that our thinking has a deep and complicated relationship with our eating. Our thoughts before, during, and after eating profoundly impact our food choices, our digestive health, our brain health, and more. Yet most of us give very little thought to our food beyond taste and basic nutritional content.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great content but a little negative
- By Anonymous User on 01-29-17
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Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- By Anonymous User on 03-24-17
By: Rebecca Romney, and others
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The Complete (Short) Guide to Absolutely Everything
- Adventures in Math and Science
- By: Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry
- Narrated by: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Geneticist Adam Rutherford and mathematician Hannah Fry guide listeners through time and space, through our bodies and brains, showing how emotions shape our view of reality, how our minds tell us lies, and why a mostly bald and curious ape decided to begin poking at the fabric of the universe.
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Humour and understandability.
- By Chris B on 09-08-24
By: Adam Rutherford, and others
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The Smartest Book in the World
- A Lexicon of Literacy, a Rancorous Reportage, a Concise Curriculum of Cool
- By: Greg Proops
- Narrated by: Greg Proops
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The Smartest Book in the World is based on Proops' sensational, iTunes Top 10 podcast. The audiobook is a rollicking reference guide to the most essential areas of knowledge in Proops' universe, from the noteworthy names of the ancient world and baseball to the movies you must see and the albums you must hear.
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Great listen
- By Jonathan on 03-06-16
By: Greg Proops
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The Mental Floss History of the World
- An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization's Best Bits
- By: Steve Wiegand, Erik Sass
- Narrated by: Johny Heller
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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About 60,000 years ago, the first Homo sapiens were just beginning their move across the grasslands and up the ladder of civilization. Everything since then, as they say, is history. Just in case you were sleeping in class that day, the geniuses at mental_floss magazine have put together a hilarious (and historically accurate) primer on everything you need to know---and that means the good stuff.
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Brilliant and Funny. What more could you want?
- By Septimus MacGhilleglas on 01-22-09
By: Steve Wiegand, and others
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Quack Quack
- The Threat of Pseudoscience
- By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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While quackery—loosely defined as the spread of false "knowledge," often accompanied by various versions of "snake oil"—is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today. In Quack Quack, Dr. Joe Schwarcz focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that undermine efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. The wide scope of the topics drawn from past and present aims to cast a life preserver to people drowning in a sea of misinformation.
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Most Entertaining!
- By Anonymous User on 12-11-22
By: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
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Junkyard Planet
- Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
- By: Adam Minter
- Narrated by: William Elsman
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter - veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner - travels deep into a vast, often hidden, 500-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment.
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Very Interesting, Very Detailed
- By Danielle C. on 06-24-21
By: Adam Minter
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- Anonymous User
- 01-22-20
current understanding of nutrition
there was so much information here and a lot of work done to find our best current understanding of nutrition based on scientific research.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-22
Great Book, Great Reader!
Dr. Joe is a recent discovery, but not a singular one. I started with one of his books that unfortunately suffers from an unfortunate reader. When you turn science books into audio form, one crucial piece is that the reader has to understand the words and how to pronounce them. In this book, Jonathan Yen is downright awesome. This is a better audiobook due in part to his inclusion.
Get and listen to this book. It is both a scientific and auditory treat.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-05-20
Excellent! Science-baced nutritional information.
I highly recommend this book. Whether you are new to nutrition or well-versed you will get something out of it.
The author does not start with a conclusion and then try to convince you of it. He gives a quick breakdown of the current status of the evidence and then explains reasonable takeaways.
THE REASON I loved this book was because in addition to the raw information we get a peek into the scientific rationale behind nutritional science and how to evaluate good lines of evidence along with dispelling pseudoscience and myth.
My only criticism is that the tone can come across as snarky at times, which can be off putting, ESPECIALLY if this is meant to help people who may hold some of the views the author hopes to clarify. I plan to recommend this book with only some hesitation due to the occasional off putting tone.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-25-20
Dr Schwarcz is always excellent.
This book, like all other books by Dr Joe Schwarcz, is consistency entertaining and informative. His books, and audiobooks, are always interesting.
Dr Schwarcz’s books are an excellent antidote to the misinformation which is so prevalent.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-30-24
Rated .5, You are not a nice person.
A God loving, God fearing person would not speak like this. We are meant to speak of others in a way to lift them up & help them not shove them & pound them underground, especially when they are not evil. Open the eyes of my heart Lord. God help us all.
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