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By Walter Gratzer. 288 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. $30. ISBN 0-19-280661-0.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

— Goethe

Had the author of this book taken Goethe's observation to heart, he might have featured the successes in the study and the advancement in the understanding of nutrition through the centuries, however slow at first, rather than providing anecdotal reporting on spurious beliefs and false starts. This book is, perhaps, an extension of the delight in debunking science that marked Gratzer's two earlier books (The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception, and Human Frailty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; and Eurekas and Euphorias: the Oxford . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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