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

Joel Fuhrman

eAudio - 2017

Revered nutrition and health expert, PBS personality, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, and The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a program to help us discover a lasting solution, including a two-week meal plan and 80 recipes. Were eating our way to discomfort, unhappiness, disease, and premature death. Processed and fake foods have become the primary source of calories in the United States a trend that is growing across the developed world. While these "Frankenfoods" efficiently feed the majority of our citizens, they do not contain the sustaining biological and chemic...al properties of food produced in nature. This fast-food solution is causing a fast-food genocide that is shaping our bodies and our futures, Joel Fuhrman, MD, warns. Eating these unhealthy foods make us fatter and profoundly affects our brains, behaviors, and even our genetic makeup, leaving us helpless to social forces that will keep us eating fast food forever, he explains. They create an avalanche of harmful problems chronic disease, lowered intelligence levels, and attention deficits that are intrinsically linked to poverty, reduced educational and occupational opportunities, and even increased drug addiction, violence, and crime. An urgent call to action, Fast Food Genocide also provides a clear and very achievable solution. While food can destroy the world, it can also heal it. We must take back control of our diet by eating specific natural ingredients in a balanced way and in doing so, our right to a healthy, long life. "Greater knowledge leads to a solution; a solution to your personal health issues and a solution for our society." Dr. Fuhrman writes. "But it starts with you."

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[United States] : HarperAudio 2017.
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English
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Joel Fuhrman (author)
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Robert B. Phillips (author), Andrés Pabon (narrator)
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Unabridged
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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9780062695086
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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

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