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Metabolical

The truth about processed food and how it poisons people and the planet

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Metabolical

By: Dr Robert Lustig
Narrated by: Charles Constant
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Summary
 Did you know that a staggering 62% of the food in our supermarkets is ultra-processed - and that eating these foods slowly poisons us over time?

In this hard-hitting exposé, New York Times bestselling author Dr Robert Lustig reveals how our addiction to ultra-processed foods - fuelled by the food industry, big agriculture, big pharma, medicine, and government - is driving a deadly surge in diseases like diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, cancer, and dementia.

We've been led to believe these chronic illnesses are just part of aging. Dr Lustig shatters this myth and shows that it's actually a consequence of what we eat.

The solution? Returning to real, unprocessed food. Dr Lustig offers a practical, doable plan to restore health, boost immunity, and reclaim wellbeing - for ourselves and society.

'Metabolical lays bare the depth of the relationship between the recent and profound perversion of the human diet and its overwhelming health consequences.' - Dr David Perlmutter, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Grain Brain and Brain Wash©2021 Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. Agricultural & Food Sciences Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Food Science Science Sociology Heartfelt Nutrition Health Healthy Diet Dementia Medicine

Critic Reviews

The authoritative, no-hold-barred analysis of what food does for health, versus what the food industry does for disease. (Mark Bittman, food writer and author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk)
We're not just eating ourselves to death, we're eating the planet to death. Metabolical explains why and why we've been so impotent at dealing with both. (Katie Couric, journalist)
Metabolical is an eye-opener about dire straits the next generation is headed into if we don't make some serious systemic changes in the way we think about nutrition. (Nicole Avena, PhD, author of What to Eat When You Want to Get Pregnant and professor of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Metabolical lays bare the depth of the relationship between the recent and profound perversion of the human diet and its overwhelming health consequences. (Dr David Perlmutter, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Grain Brain and Brain Wash)
Robert Lustig has treated the casualties, and now he's going after the perpetrators. (Raj Patel, social activist and author of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice)
A modern Copernicus, Dr Robert Lustig has provided the expertise to recognize the charade of processed food and has the courage to tell the truth about it. (Dr Dale E. Bredesen, professor and author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Alzheimer’s)
A beautifully written exposé of a broken system that begs to be repaired. (Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, director of the World Food Policy Center)
Metabolical shows that not all calories are created equal, an insight that if acted upon could save countless lives. (Robert N. Proctor, PhD, professor of the history of science, Stanford University)
Metabolical is a meticulous analysis of nutrition and health; and an indictment of processed food, and the actors who conspire to keep our food unhealthy. (Emily M. Broad Leib, JD, clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School)
This book will open your eyes to a powerful food industry that is failing in its core task. (Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD, professor at Columbia University and president of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network)
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Dr Robert Lustig’s no holds research presents pertinent and helpful foundations for me as a carer of my mother’s long list of health issues — most of which, are reversible. Highly recommended!

Tremendous help for a carer of dementia, diabetic & chronic kidney disease patient

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Good idea behind the book.
Concerned about folks' health.
Looks into causes, finds diet and misinformation n corporate greed to blame, along with entrenched bad science, scientists and phony professionals.
Finds much politics.
While all no doubt true, it's a bit doomy n gloomy and gets depressing.
He hopes the book'll make it digferent, it may.
Good man, good science, good intentions.
Too much irony/drama in narrator, grates at times.
Will yhis book change out a completely broken system?
Nope but folk becoming aware will.

Too much politics, otherwise scientific

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This book has information everyone needs to know and act on to enable better life and health choices.

Wake-up call

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Loved the book content and the narration. Timely wake-up call to what goes on with food companies and pharmaceutical companies to keep selling us their products. We know it deep down I guess but this is packed with facts and figures providing us the information to argue the case with our friends and family. Get them all onto the real food bandwagon and get your health and vitality back fast. Lost 5 pounds during the 2 weeks I listened to this without exercising, just avoiding junk!

Excellent wake-up call!

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Im saddened by this book. I ate junk during pregnancies. I fed my kids cereal. I used baby food, I occasionally let them have Soda. And juices …it is hard to believe ,but I do, that ppl consciously made a decision , many decisions to harm ppl. To create generational bad health .to still do it. Where do those ppl and their families eat? Do they let their loved ones eat the shit the peddle to us? I live in nz . We eat way better than Americans .but we are still part of the wheel.
It’s depressing that you can’t trust anyone or anything, I buy organic, free range and grass fed. But am I?
I’m going to try the whole foods only from now on , and get vigilant but how do you control the environmental stuff.
I’m creating my own garden , raise chickens for eggs etc, but then to find out your meat is laced with antibiotics and growth hormones etc etc ….
It’s very depressing and anger inducing to know we were all systematically poisoned. And it wasn’t an accident . Eff that .

How can we ever win?

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