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Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine /

Lustig, Robert H.,

Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine / Robert H. Lustig. - First edition. - New York, NY : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] - viii, 407 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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.

0063027712 9780063027718

2021002178


Chronic diseases--Alternative treatment.
Chronic diseases--Diet therapy.
Chronic diseases--Nutritional aspects.

RC108 / .L878 2021

616.044

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