Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

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Overview

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and The End of Diabetes, an unflinching, provocative exploration of how our food is killing us and the ways in which we are unwitting participants in an unprecedented and exploding health crisis.

Fast food is far more than just the burgers, fries, and burritos served at chain restaurants; it is also the toxic, human-engineered products found in every grocery store across America. These include: cold breakfast cereals; commercial and preserved (deli) meats and cheeses; sandwich breads and buns; chips, pretzels, and crackers; fried foods; energy bars; and soft drinks. Fast foods have become the primary source of calories in the United States and consequently the most far-reaching and destructive influence on our population. The indisputable truth is that our highly processed diet is the source of a national health crisis that is exploding into a genocide with unseen tragic implications.

Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, obesity, ADHD, autism, allergies, and autoimmune diseases all have the same root cause – our addiction to toxic ingredients. New York Times bestselling author, board-certified physician, nutritional researcher, and leading voice in the health field Joel Fuhrman, M.D., explains why the problem of poor nutrition is deeper, more serious, and more pervasive than anyone imagined.

Fast Food Genocide draws on twenty-five years of clinical experience and research to confront our fundamental beliefs about the impact of what we eat. This book identifies issues at the heart of our country’s most urgent problems. Fast food kills, but it also perpetuates bigotry and derails the American dream of equal opportunity and happiness for all. It leaves behind a wake of destruction creating millions of medically dependent and sickly people burdened with poor-quality lives.

The solution hiding in plain sight — a nutrientdense healthful diet — can save lives and enable humans to reach their intellectual potential and achieve successful and fulfilling lives. Dr. Fuhrman offers a life-changing, scientifically sound approach that can alter American history and perhaps save your life in the process.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062571212
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/17/2017
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 1,115,048
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

About The Author
JOEL FUHRMAN, M.D. is an internationally recognized expert on nutrition and natural healing, a board-certified family physician, President of the Nutritional Research Foundation, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Dr. Fuhrman has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, including his own  successful PBS specials, which have raised millions for public broadcasting stations.


Dr. Fuhrman is the author of six New York Times best-sellers: Eat to Live (Little Brown, 2003); Super Immunity (HarperOne, 2012); The End of Diabetes (HarperOne, 2013); The Eat to Live Cookbook (HarperOne, 2013); The End of Dieting (HarperOne, 2014) and The End of Heart Disease (HarperOne, 2016).

In addition to his New York Times best-sellers, Dr. Fuhrman has written several other popular books, which include: Fast Food Genocide (HarperOne, 2017); Eat to Live Quick & Easy Cookbook (HarperOne, 2017); Eat for Health (Gift of Health Press), Disease Proof Your Child (St. Martin’s Griffin), Fasting and Eating for Health (St. Martin’s Griffin) and the Dr. Fuhrman’s Nutritarian Handbook and ANDI Food Scoring Guide (Gift of Health Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction Participants In Our Own Destruction 1

Chapter 1 Fast Food and Disease 15

Chapter 2 The Brain On Fast Food 41

Chapter 3 Let Food Be Thy Medicine 69

Chapter 4 The Lessons Of History 99

Chapter 5 DNA, Social Energy, and Fast Food 129

Chapter 6 Making Deserts Green Again 153

Chapter 7 Food For The Heart And Soul 177

Chapter 8 Eating Our Way To Health 203

Chapter 9 Frequently Asked Questions 267

Acknowledgments 299

Notes 301

Index 329

About the Authors 343

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