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Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine / Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL.
Lippincott Library - Business Trends RC108 .L87 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lustig, Robert H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chronic diseases--Nutritional aspects.
- Chronic diseases.
- Chronic diseases--Treatment.
- Nutrition.
- Processed foods--Health aspects.
- Processed foods.
- Food habits.
- Feeding Behavior.
- Chronic Disease.
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
- Medical Subjects:
- Feeding Behavior.
- Chronic Disease.
- Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
- Genre:
- Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition - Diets.
- Informational works
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 407 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Dentists 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lustig, Robert H., Metabolical
- ISBN:
- 9780063027718
- 0063027712
- OCLC:
- 1182569259
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