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Metabolical
- Narrator
- Charles Constant
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 4 May 2021
- Run Time
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
In this hard-hitting exposé, New York Times bestselling author Dr Robert Lustig reveals how our addiction to ultra-processed foods - fuelled by the food industry, big agriculture, big pharma, medicine, and government - is driving a deadly surge in diseases like diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, cancer, and dementia.
We've been led to believe these chronic illnesses are just part of aging. Dr Lustig shatters this myth and shows that it's actually a consequence of what we eat.
The solution? Returning to real, unprocessed food. Dr Lustig offers a practical, doable plan to restore health, boost immunity, and reclaim wellbeing - for ourselves and society.
'Metabolical lays bare the depth of the relationship between the recent and profound perversion of the human diet and its overwhelming health consequences.' - Dr David Perlmutter, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Grain Brain and Brain Wash
Critics Review
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The authoritative, no-hold-barred analysis of what food does for health, versus what the food industry does for disease.
Mark Bittman, food writer and author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk
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We're not just eating ourselves to death, we're eating the planet to death. Metabolical explains why and why we've been so impotent at dealing with both.
Katie Couric, journalist
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Metabolical is an eye-opener about dire straits the next generation is headed into if we don't make some serious systemic changes in the way we think about nutrition.
Nicole Avena, PhD, author of What to Eat When You Want to Get Pregnant and professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Metabolical lays bare the depth of the relationship between the recent and profound perversion of the human diet and its overwhelming health consequences.
Dr David Perlmutter, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Grain Brain and Brain Wash
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Robert Lustig has treated the casualties, and now he's going after the perpetrators.
Raj Patel, social activist and author of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
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A modern Copernicus, Dr Robert Lustig has provided the expertise to recognize the charade of processed food and has the courage to tell the truth about it.
Dr Dale E. Bredesen, professor and author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Alzheimer’s
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A beautifully written exposé of a broken system that begs to be repaired.
Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, director of the World Food Policy Center
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Metabolical shows that not all calories are created equal, an insight that if acted upon could save countless lives.
Robert N. Proctor, PhD, professor of the history of science, Stanford University
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Metabolical is a meticulous analysis of nutrition and health; and an indictment of processed food, and the actors who conspire to keep our food unhealthy.
Emily M. Broad Leib, JD, clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School
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This book will open your eyes to a powerful food industry that is failing in its core task.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD, professor at Columbia University and president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network
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Details
- Author
- Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL
- Narrator
- Charles Constant
- Duration
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 May 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529350081
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Personal and public health / health education, Health and wholefood cookery / healthy eating, Dietetics and nutrition, Gastroenterology, Health: Diets and nutrition, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries
Synopsis
Did you know that a staggering 62% of the food in our supermarkets is ultra-processed - and that eating these foods slowly poisons us over time?In this hard-hitting exposé, New York Times bestselling author Dr Robert Lustig reveals how our addiction to ultra-processed foods - fuelled by the food industry, big agriculture, big pharma, medicine, and government - is driving a deadly surge in diseases like diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, cancer, and dementia.We've been led to believe these chronic illnesses are just part of aging. Dr Lustig shatters this myth and shows that it's actually a consequence of what we eat.The solution? Returning to real, unprocessed food. Dr Lustig offers a practical, doable plan to restore health, boost immunity, and reclaim wellbeing - for ourselves and society.'Metabolical lays bare the depth of the relationship between the recent and profound perversion of the human diet and its overwhelming health consequences.' - Dr David Perlmutter, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Grain Brain and Brain Wash
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