Fast food genocide : how processed food is killing us and what we can do about it

Fast food genocide How processed food is killing us and what we can do about it

Joel Fuhrman

Book - 2017

From cold breakfast cereals and deli meats and cheeses to energy bars, burgers, and soft drinks, fast foods have become the primary source of calories in the United States. They are also the most destructive influence on our population. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, obesity, ADHD, autism, allergies, and autoimmune diseases all have the same root cause-- our addiction to toxic ingredients. Fuhrman confronts our fundamental beliefs about the impact of what we eat, and shows how a nutrient-dense healthful diet can save lives.

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Subjects
Nutrition.
Junk food > Health aspects.
Processed foods > Health aspects.
Diet.
Published
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Joel Fuhrman (author)
Other Authors
Robert B. Phillips (contributor)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-327) and index.
ISBN
9780062571212
  • Introduction: Participants in Our Own Destruction
  • Chapter 1. Fast Food and Disease
  • Chapter 2. The Brain on Fast Food
  • Chapter 3. Let Food Be Thy Medicine
  • Chapter 4. The Lessons of History
  • Chapter 5. DNA, Social Energy, and Fast Food
  • Chapter 6. Making Deserts Green Again
  • Chapter 7. Food for the Heart and Soul
  • Chapter 8. Eating Out Way to Health
  • Chapter 9. Frequently Asked Questions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

Is it fair to label fast food a genocide? Fuhrman (The End of Heart Disease, 2016) says, Yes, as he cites the dictionary definition, the deliberate destruction of an entire race or nation, and ticks off the ways fast-food malnutrition causes weight gain and chronic inflammation. Fuhrman calls on readers to eat foods in their unprocessed states and to beware of additives, even supposedly healthy ones like folic acid, a petroleum-derived, synthetic form of the B vitamin folate that's added to commercial baked goods and to vitamins and which studies associate with a higher incidence of cancer. After reading his passionate case for why we need to eat leafy greens rather than relying on supplements, health-conscious eaters will find much to validate their beliefs and will undoubtedly enjoy the doctor's decision to devote 52 pages to recipes. The biggest fans of fries and burgers may change their ways and try to keep only healthy food in their houses, even if they turn up their noses at adding spinach to a chocolate smoothie.--Springen, Karen Copyright 2017 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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