The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
by:
John Robbins (author)
Dean Ornish (author)
Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If, according to chaos theory, the beating of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the...
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Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If, according to chaos theory, the beating of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world, try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in droves due to genetically-engineered corn growing in the Midwest. There is also a direct correlation between the Big Mac in your hand and the mile-wide river now running across the North Pole. Learn the truth about foods we are eating that are, in Robbins' words, "unsafe on any plate."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781573247023 (1573247022)
Publish date: July 11th 2001
Publisher: Conari Pr
Pages no: 449
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Science,
Environment,
Health,
Cookbooks,
Vegan,
Nutrition,
Diets,
Vegetarian
Over twenty years ago I read Diet for a New America and after a short flirtation with vegetarianism; I somehow managed to forget most of what I absorbed. Since having my own family, facing increasing, personal health issues and growing up a little, I have slowly been working up the courage to face ...
Disturbing. Should be required reading for everyone.