Whole Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson, Don Hagen

eAudio - 2013

What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.Whole, a New York Times bestseller and an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, is a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn't nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Becau...se almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences—and that's just from an apple.Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is... more