Metabolical : : the Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Lustig, Robert H.	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

Includes index.
Part I Debunking "modern medicine" -- "Treatment" is not "cure"--it's not even treatment -- "Modern medicine" treats symptoms, not disease -- Doctors need to "Unlearn" nutrition -- Dietitians lost their mind -- Dentist lost their way -- Because big pharma was their teacher -- Part II Debunking "Chronic disease" -- The "Diseases" that aren't diseases -- Checkpoints alpha, bravo, charlie: nutrient-sensing and chronic disease -- Assembling the clues to diagnose yourself -- Foodable, not druggable -- Part III Notes from the nutritional battlefield -- What does "Healthy" really mean? -- Nutrition "Unwrapped" -- Food in the time of Corona -- What and how adults eat -- What and how children and adolescents eat -- What and how fetuses, infants, and toddlers eat -- Part IV (Processed) food fight -- Food classifications -- Food adulterations -- Food subtractions -- Food additions -- Food addictions -- Food fraud -- Part V Where are the food police when you need them? -- The party line -- The USDA and the FDA don't kill people; rather they let them die -- Real food is good for the planet -- Real food is good for the wallet -- Un-processing our food supply -- The case for real food.
"The NYT bestselling author of Fat Chance, Dr. Robert Lustig explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, and how they are not 'druggable,' but how they are 'foodable'--meaning, medication can't cure what nutrition can--by following two basic principles: protect the liver and feed the gut"-- Provided by publisher.

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