Bibliograph

Formerly known as food, how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture, Kristin Lawless

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Formerly known as food, how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture, Kristin Lawless

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Formerly known as food

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kristin Lawless

Sub title

how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture

Summary

If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food―even what we're told is good for us―has changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating. In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival. --, from Amazon description

Table Of Contents

How did we end up here? -- Our industrial food landscape : the whole egg theory & how we got here -- What are we actually eating? : industrial food and your health -- Losing our food illusions : "organics" and the missing nutrients in your food -- From the womb to tomb : how the industrial food system is changing us from the inside out -- The industrial food set-up : getting you (and your children) hooked from day one -- Living in a microbial world : industrially processed food and your gut -- New science and failing health agencies -- "So many tips of so many icebergs" : how endocrine disrupting chemicals are harming you -- (and your children, and their children) -- Exposing you to toxic chemicals "safely" : how the regulatory agencies are failing to protect your health -- Understanding our food culture and creating real change -- Food "choice" : the culture of our upside-down food environment -- Handmaidens of industry : women, the home, and unwaged work -- W: can't eat our way out of this crisis: food movement failures and real change -- Conclusion -- A new food movement manifesto -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Target audience

adult

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