Fast Food Genocide - by Joel Fuhrman & Robert Phillips (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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."

From the Back Cover

In Fast Food Genocide, #1 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, and he reveals the solution that's been hiding in plain sight: a nutrient-dense, healthful diet that can save lives.

Review Quotes

Dr. Fuhrman has done what no one else has done in a clear, powerful way--connect the dots not only between food and our obesity and diabetes epidemic, but food and almost everything that's wrong with our society. Poverty, violence, ADD, and declining intellectual capital of our nation, autism, dementia, cancer, and chronic disease. This book will change the way you think about what you eat and has broad implications for policy makers and the health care system. In fact, it 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
"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, truly one of the paramount books of our time. Speaking to all of us with wisdom, brilliance, and compassion, Joel Fuhrman, M.D. shows us what's at stake in the food choices we collectively make. And he shows us the immense power we each have to create better lives and a better world." - John Robbins, Author and President of the Food Revolution Network
"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