Comparing Diets

A Critical, Evidence-Based Review of Popular Eating Patterns — Beyond the Diet Wars

Comparing Diets is Book G5 of The Performance & Human Physiology Encyclopedia — a 93-volume, university-level library on what a given way of eating really does — and for whom. It is written for readers choosing a diet, and professionals asked about them daily: deep enough that a professional already trained in the field keeps learning, structured clearly enough that a motivated reader can follow every step.

What you will find inside

• The Diet Wars and the Myth of the "Best Diet"
• How to Evaluate Any Diet
• The Common Core: What Healthy Diets Share
• Energy Balance vs the Diet Wars
• The Mediterranean Diet
• DASH and Patterns for Heart Health
• Low-Carbohydrate and Ketogenic Diets
• Plant-Based Diets: Vegetarian and Vegan
• Paleo, Whole30, and Ancestral Diets
• Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Eating
• Carnivore, Elimination, and Extreme Diets
• Fad Diets, Detoxes, and the Diet Industry
• Putting It Into Practice: Choosing and Sustaining a Diet

How this book is written

• University level, without dilution. Exact scientific terminology, defined at first use — mechanisms, not just conclusions.
• Evidence graded, not asserted. Major claims carry a level, from A (strong) to D (expert opinion), so you always know how much weight to give them.
• Numbers, formulas, worked examples. Reference ranges, equations and solved calculations you can apply the same day.
• Myths confronted directly. Where a popular claim does not survive the evidence, the book says so — and shows why.
• Fully referenced (APA 7). References at the end of every chapter, plus a master bibliography.

13 chapters · approx. 100 pages · Book G5, Collection G — Diets & Nutritional Strategies.