So, I recently discovered that as I get older, I'm getting dumber.
I used to be so smart! I used to read books, and think deep thoughts, and express them well on paper.
Therefore, I have resolved to read at least one non-grad-school-related book each week for the next 6 weeks.
Woot!
I know that doesn't seem like a lot for all you smarty-pants readers out there, but let me assure you, I will have to sacrifice a LOT of TV to accomplish this daunting task.
My first book is almost done. All week, I have been reading Gary Taubes's excellent book on nutrition, "Why we get fat: and what to do about it." I'm almost finished, so that counts as book one. (yeah, that's how I roll)
To sum up this first book, it's amazingly brilliant. It makes me simultaneously really happy and really angry, because Taubes dissects what is wrong with our calorie-focused diet culture, and breaks down the science of body fat into extremely accessible terms. It has changed the way I think about eating, about food, and about myself.
I highly recommend it.
You may be dumber - although, that is disputable, but you are definately as funny if not more so than you have always been.!
ReplyDeleteI love your guts!
Is it a diet book because I HATE diet books.
ReplyDeleteAnd good luck with your reading. I look forward to hearing about the books you choose.
It's not a diet book, it's a book about fat. It's about the misconceptions in modern diet culture about how our bodies process foods, and misconceptions about fatness. It also goes really deep into hormones and body chemistry problems that cause people to over-store fat.
ReplyDeleteLike, the whole beginning is about how being fat used to be considered a type of malnutrition. It's really interesting.
You know what is a form of malnutrition? Fat of the BRAIN!
ReplyDelete