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Now for today’s choice:

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This is, of course, clearly inspired by Dr. Chris van Tulleken’s bestseller “Ultra-Processed People” which we reviewed previously.

However, the presentation here is quite different, and the content goes down a very different avenue.

As you may gather from the title, the focus is more on women’s health specifically, and in terms of epidemiology, the different marketing that is aimed at women, contrasted with the marketing aimed at men, and thus the often different dangers that may appear on the societal level, and on an individual level.

On the one hand, Milli Hill doesn’t have the science background that Dr. van Tulleken has, but on the other hand, she is very active on social media, and has a strong ability to pick up very many popular misconceptions that sound plausible if one doesn’t examine the science, or if one doesn’t understand the science.

It’s always very reassuring when an author takes the time to go through the science, the good and the bad and the misleading, to show what the evidence does and doesn’t show. So that was something that was unfortunately missing in this book, with instead a lot of uncritical repeating of misinformation.

We do love to see a lot of mythbusting, and we didn’t get to enjoy that here; instead we got to read a lot of disinformation about the purported (and thoroughly debunked) dangers of MSG, the supposed dangers of soy (that absolutely does not do the things she thinks it does), and so forth. We learn about how eating ultraprocessed bread (even when such is often higher in fiber, lower in salt) rather than home-made will double the risk of miscarriage, that soft drinks cause asthma, and many other things for which there is either simply no evidence, or there was a case study (i.e.: an anecdote), or there was one cherry-picked study with a faulty methodology and a sample size of 9, or on the flipside, there was a big sweeping epidemiological study that didn’t come the conclusion being claimed, but it did have the keywords in the title so it gets cited as evidence, things like that.

Bottom line: this book does promote a lot of interesting (and even valid) questions, and we certainly agree it is generally good to err on the side of less processed rather than more. By all means, go for simple ingredients, cook your own food (this reviewer loves cooking from scratch!), just, you don’t need to be afraid of something having a multiple-syllable ingredient, and not everything that does the rounds on social media is true.

Click here to check out Ultra-Processed Women, which we really wanted to like because we do appreciate a focus on women’s health, but this just wasn’t it, falling short with its many misunderstandings and false claims.

Wishing you a wonderfully restorative weekend,

The 10almonds Team