Drinking seawater, forgetting about milk, eliminating cereals and legumes or removing olive oil from our kitchen forever are just some examples of the disturbing "nutritional advice" that is put on the table of many homes, either in the form of miracle diets, advertising brochures or books. All of them, of course, are presented with an elegant and careful packaging (often by a famous person who knows little about nutrition, but a lot about audiences) and that turn these "methods", formulas or books into hits absolute sales. Given that diet is key to health, it is worth wondering why these diets work so well, what problems they can cause and, above all, how to discover the false "gurus" who promote them.

This is an informative book, created to inform, with the sole pretense of entertaining, without further pretense.