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Metabolical : the lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine / Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063027718
  • 0063027712
Other title:
  • Lure and the lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine
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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 -- 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.
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.



Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.

You can't solve a problem if you don't know what the problem is. One of Lustig's singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to "connect the dots" for the general reader, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the "real story of food" and "the story of real food."

Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:

Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself You can diagnose your own biochemical profile Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable" Processed food isn't just toxic, it's addictive The war between vegan and keto is a false war--the combatants are on the same side Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side

Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what's needed to fix all three.



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.

Includes index.

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