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

by Joel Fuhrman, Robert Phillips

Overview

Revered nutrition and health expert, PBS personality, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, and The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a program to help us discover a lasting solution, including a two-week meal plan and 80 recipes.

We’re eating our way to discomfort, unhappiness, disease, and premature death. Processed and fake foods have become the primary source of calories in the United States—a trend that is growing across the developed world. While these "Frankenfoods" efficiently feed the majority of our citizens, they do not contain the sustaining biological and chemical properties of food produced in nature. This fast-food solution is causing a fast-food genocide that is shaping our bodies and our futures, Joel Fuhrman, MD, warns.

Eating these unhealthy foods make us fatter and profoundly affects our brains, behaviors, and even our genetic makeup, leaving us helpless to social forces that will keep us eating fast food forever, he explains. They create an avalanche of harmful problems—chronic disease, lowered intelligence levels, and attention deficits that are intrinsically linked to poverty, reduced educational and occupational opportunities, and even increased drug addiction, violence, and crime.

An urgent call to action, Fast Food Genocide also provides a clear and very achievable solution. While food can destroy the world, it can also heal it. We must take back control of our diet—by eating specific natural ingredients in a balanced way—and in doing so, our right to a healthy, long life. "Greater knowledge leads to a solution; a solution to your personal health issues and a solution for our society." Dr. Fuhrman writes. "But it starts with you."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062571229
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	675,036
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.79(d)

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

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Fuhrman connects the dots not only between food and our obesity and diabetes epidemic, but food and almost everything that’s wrong with our society...should be required reading for every member of Congress and anyone who cares about social justice.” — Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Fat, Get Thin and Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

“Joel Fuhrman has long been a leader in nutritional medicine, and now he puts his expertise to work for those who need it most. With his guidance, we can turn the tide on our most critical health problems.” — Neal Barnard, MC, FACC Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine

“Fast Food Genocide is one of the most important books you’ll ever read...Speaking to all of us with wisdom, brilliance, and compassion, Joel Fuhrman shows us what’s at stake in the food choices we collectively make.” — John Robbins, Author and President of the Food Revolution Network

From the Publisher

Fast Food Genocide is one of the most important books you’ll ever read...Speaking to all of us with wisdom, brilliance, and compassion, Joel Fuhrman shows us what’s at stake in the food choices we collectively make.

John Robbins

Joel Fuhrman has long been a leader in nutritional medicine, and now he puts his expertise to work for those who need it most. With his guidance, we can turn the tide on our most critical health problems.

Neal Barnard

Dr. Fuhrman connects the dots not only between food and our obesity and diabetes epidemic, but food and almost everything that’s wrong with our society...should be required reading for every member of Congress and anyone who cares about social justice.

Mark Hyman