What should I eat? A simple question that has become extremely complicated today.

Should I follow the "Paleolithic" (Paleo) diet or, better yet, the low-carb diet? Maybe the low-fat diet? The strict vegetarian diet? The gluten-free diet? With the book The Nutrition Compass, author and journalist Bas Kast, specialized in scientific topics, brings order to the chaos prevailing in diets and helps us navigate better in the gigantic jungle of nutritional information. Beyond modern trends and ideologies, he deals with what is truly healthy. What do people who live long eat? How can one effectively lose weight? Why are even the "official" dietary guidelines misleading?

Kast confronts various dietary myths and describes the foundations of a diet that protects us from aging diseases and prolongs our lives. The basis of his proposals is a uniquely comprehensive overview of thousands of dietary studies from modern medicine, metabolism research, and aging research.

When Bas Kast, a journalist specialized in scientific topics, collapsed with chest pains at the age of forty, he faced an existential question: Had he destroyed his health with junk food? He decided to radically change his diet in order to get well again. But what is truly healthy? Thus began a multi-year journey of discovery into modern aging and nutrition research.

Bas Kast's book contains the scientifically proven essence of healthy eating. It enables us to understand essentially everything related to healthy eating and diets, and to identify the lies in the supposed magical formulas and tricks of self-proclaimed diet gurus. With The Nutrition Compass, no one can deceive us anymore when it comes to nutrition!