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Primed for Western bods
A new book on nutrition is therefore to be welcomed, even if, ploughing a tilled field, most of its revelations are not new. After all, loquacious taxi-drivers and coffee shop \"know-alls\" have been known to pronounce, quite wisely, on cholesterol, saturated fats and antioxidants to willing, and unwilling, listeners. Maybe because of this, the authors of High Performance Nutrition have chosen a catchy title to draw a jaded crowd. The new wheeze is the promise of \"high performance\". Yet not so new as all that, since at least one earlier book by another author (Power Foods: High-Performance Nutrition for High-Performance People) preaches the same message. One apostate has also written a book, Fitness Without Exercise. This mixed bag is a reminder that it is not just nutritional principles that are in question, but the way we set about applying them in a balanced diet (with appropriate exercise), while adjusting total calorie intake to suit our individual needs. Their diffuse style of writing is also confusing at times. For example, they state that \"To develop muscle, you must increase your calories, and the healthiest way to do that is to up your carb intake, not your intake of protein or fat\". (p. 26) Yet later (p. 37), it is claimed that \"Because of protein's role in forming lean muscle tissues, it's no wonder that protein has long been touted as the food of athletes, particularly strength athletes such as bodybuilders, weightlifters, and football players\".
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