A book examining the shortcomings and confusion within the nutrition industry and outlining steps to improve.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Howard Lyman -- Introduction -- Challenging disease care. Disease care today -- The hidden history of nutrition and disease -- Disease care institutionalized -- Confusion in nutrition. The state of nutrition -- The cult of animal protein -- Related myths, debates, and diversions -- Science as dogma. A radical challenge to science -- The limits of reductionist nutrition -- A case study of wholistic science -- Looking to the future. Recommendations -- Postscript.