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Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine / Robert H. Lustig.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 407 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0063027712
  • 9780063027718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.044 23
LOC classification:
  • RC108 .L878 2021
Contents:
Part I. Debunking "modern medicine." 1. "Treatment" is not the "cure"--it's not even the treatment ; 2. "Modern medicine" treats symptoms, not disease ; 3. Doctors need to "unlearn" nutrition ; 4. Dietitians lost their mind ; 5. Dentists lost their way ; 6. Because big pharma was their teacher -- Part II. Debunking "chronic disease." 7. The "diseases" that aren't diseases ; 8. Checkpoints alpha, bravo, Charlie: nutrient-sensing and chronic disease ; 9. Assembling the clues to diagnose yourself ; 10. Foodable, not drugable -- Part III. Notes from the nutritional battlefield. 11. What does "healthy" really mean ; 12. Nutrition "unwrapped" ; 13. Food in the time of Corona ; 14. What and how adults eat ; 15. What and how children and adolescents eat ; 16. What and how fetuses, infants, and toddlers eat -- Part IV. (Processed) food fight. 17. Food classifications ; 18. Food adulterations ; 19. Food subtractions ; 20. Food additions ; 21. Food addictions ; 22. Food fraud -- Part V. Where are the food police when you need them?. 23. The party line ; 24. The USDA and the FDA don't kill people; rather they let them die ; 25. Real food is good for the planet ; 26. Real food is good for the wallet ; 27. Un-processing our food supply - 28. The case for real food.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet."--Amazon.com.

Includes index.

Part I. Debunking "modern medicine." 1. "Treatment" is not the "cure"--it's not even the treatment ; 2. "Modern medicine" treats symptoms, not disease ; 3. Doctors need to "unlearn" nutrition ; 4. Dietitians lost their mind ; 5. Dentists lost their way ; 6. Because big pharma was their teacher -- Part II. Debunking "chronic disease." 7. The "diseases" that aren't diseases ; 8. Checkpoints alpha, bravo, Charlie: nutrient-sensing and chronic disease ; 9. Assembling the clues to diagnose yourself ; 10. Foodable, not drugable -- Part III. Notes from the nutritional battlefield. 11. What does "healthy" really mean ; 12. Nutrition "unwrapped" ; 13. Food in the time of Corona ; 14. What and how adults eat ; 15. What and how children and adolescents eat ; 16. What and how fetuses, infants, and toddlers eat -- Part IV. (Processed) food fight. 17. Food classifications ; 18. Food adulterations ; 19. Food subtractions ; 20. Food additions ; 21. Food addictions ; 22. Food fraud -- Part V. Where are the food police when you need them?. 23. The party line ; 24. The USDA and the FDA don't kill people; rather they let them die ; 25. Real food is good for the planet ; 26. Real food is good for the wallet ; 27. Un-processing our food supply - 28. The case for real food.

"The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet."--Amazon.com.

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