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"Michael Pollan—one of my favorite authors—says "What fast food nation did for the way Americans eat, Generation Rx does for the way we medicate ourselves." Right on. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, Ph.D. I don't agree with Nestle about everything, but she sure got it right in this terrific book. Dense, but important. RESOURCES FOR SPECIFIC CONDITIONS Acne Books The Dietaiy Cure for Acne by Loren Cordain, Ph.D." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Eric Schlosser, in Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal, discusses how fast-food restaurants have figured out that they can increase sales by promoting "super-size" portions of food. Since most of their costs are not related to the food itself, they can ask you if you want a "large order of french fries for ten cents more" and make you feel like you are getting a better value. After all, you are getting cheaper food per pound. Nobody mentions the fact that the extra food is making you fatter and can kill you." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Schlosser, along with Charles Wilson, also wrote a version of fast food nation tailored especially for teens. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food offers a kid-friendly take on the fast-food industry. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health by T. Colin Campbell reports on the path-breaking study that established definitive links between nutrition and a variety of diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases, and even cancer." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The infiltration of fast food into our lives—and its economic, cultural, and health consequences—was expertly described in chilling detail in Eric Schlosser's best-selling book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Schlosser gives an incisive history of the development of American fast food, drawing alarming conclusions about how we have come to face epidemic obesity and toxic, sometimes lethal, food sources, and generally how the fast food industry has changed the landscape of how Americans eat and live." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Books such as Eric Schlosser's fast food nation (along with the movie version) and documentary films like Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, for example, have drawn attention to the myriad ills (personal and social) to which fast-food chains like McDonald's have contributed. But despite the increased media attention, not everyone fully understands the scope of the food industry's role in creating such problems. And how could they, given that so much of the relevant information is distorted or kept hidden by food manufacturers and government agencies alike?" - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined," Eric Schlosser reveals in fast food nation. What's more, in almost all cases, as noted earlier, all this dining out means people also are unknowingly putting into their bodies processed foods often pumped with hidden sugars. "People are consuming products that they wouldn't even dream have sugar in them," says food scientist Russ Bianchi. "The perfect example is roaster chickens, which are injected with water, salt, sugar, fructose, starch, and preservatives." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the Ail-American Meal, New York: Perennial, 2002. Severson, Kim. "Sugar and Alcohol Basic Food Groups for Many Adults: High-Calorie Meals Often Nutritionally Deficient, UC Berkeley Professor Finds." San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2004. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/02/MNG0U6V4S436.DTL. Sherman, Robert B. "A Spoonful of Sugar." Lyrics. National Institutes of Health website. http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/spoonful.htm. Spreen, Allan N." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Schlosser, Eric. fast food nation. New York: Perennial, 2002. Schoonover, Heather, and Mark Muller. "Food without Policy: How U.S. Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity." Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, http://www.iatp.org/iatp/publications .cfm?accountID=421&refID=80627. Shape Up America staff. "Diabesity." http://www.shapeup.org/prof/diabesity.php. Super Size Me. Directed by Morgan Spurlock. Hart Sharp Video, 2004. Tschop, Matthias H., et al. "Consuming Fructose-Sweetened Beverages Increases Body Adiposity in Mice." Obesity Research 13 (2005): 1146-56. Teff, K. L., S. S." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"If you have teenage children, have them read the book fast food nation by Eric Schlosser. Dedicate some time in your schedule to enjoying cats, dogs, rabbits, birds and other animals. Discover the truth behind vivisection (animal experimentation). Watch the video Lethal Medicine. Keep in mind that karmic energy may be balanced in other ways than from eating. Planting produces favorable karma. If one eats coconuts, tree nuts and seeds, one should also plant coconuts, tree nuts and seeds to balance the karma." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Schlosser, E., Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Straw, D., Why Is Cancer Killing Our Pets? Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2000. Strombeck, D.R., DVM, Home Prepared Dog and Cat Diets, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1999. Zucker, M., Natural Remedies for Cats, New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. Zucker, M. Natural Remedies for Dogs, New York, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. Websites In the United States American Board of Veterinary Toxicology." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"In his excellent expose, fast food nation, >? investigative journalist Eric Schlosser ?HUNGER: The various sensations describes in considerable detail how g you feel when you confront a fast-food companies have engineered I deficit in the fuel 9?need t0 fast food to exploit every vulnerability ^ keeP y°urself runnin8-of human taste and preference. These J"* companies systematically test flavor additives with focus groups, tweaking Ufoods until they become maximally pleasurable or, more bluntly, maximally addictive. This problem goes well beyond fast food." - David L. Katz, Catherine S. Katz, Dr. David Katz's Flavor-Full Diet: Use Your Tastebuds to Lose Pounds and Inches with this Scientifically Proven Plan (Get the book.)

"Eric Schlosser, author of fast food nation, agrees: "Right now you would have a hard time finding a federal agency more completely dominated by the industry it was created to regulate." Carol Tucker Foreman was the USDA assistant secretary under President Carter, and she said, "Whether it's intentional or not, USDA gives the impression of being a wholly owned subsidiary of America's cattlemen. Their interests rather than the public interests predominate USDA policy." Examples? Meat and livestock organizations gave $623,000 in campaign donations in 2000." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"For example, Eric Schlosser in fast food nation (2001) reported: "For years the McDonald's Corporation has provided its managers with training in 'transactional analysis,' a set of psychological techniques popularized in the book Vm OK—You're OK (1969). One of these techniques is called 'stroking'—a form of positive reinforcement, deliberate praise, and recognition that many teenagers don't get at home. Stroking can make a worker feel that his or her contribution is sincerely valued. And it's much less expensive than raising wages or paying overtime." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"For example, the bestseller fast food nation describes how Americans have come to frequent high-volume, high-fat restaurants.24 Use of the automobile is often invoked in explaining the obesity epidemic, as is the overuse of television. In addition to reducing the need to walk, cars have changed the built environment. There are fewer sidewalks, little opportunity for safe bicycling, and little attention to attractive environments for exercise." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

"Eric Schlosser, fast food nation super-sizing A standard serving of soda in the 1950's was 6.5 ounces. Today the standard is 20 ounces. In the U.S., one study found that participants consistently labeled as "medium" portions that were double or triple the size of recommended portions. World Watch Inst. super-pricing At Cineplex Odeon theaters, a 20 oz. small drink costs $2.50, while a 44 oz. large, which is 120% larger, costs only 30% more or $3.25." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "Preventing & Reversing Arthritis Naturally, by Raquel Martin • Healthy Healing, by Linda Rector Page • fast food nation, by Eric Schlosser • Food Politics and Food Safety, both by Marion Nestle • Politically Incorrect Nutrition, by Michael Barbee • The Crazy Makers, by Carol Simontacchi • The Wheatgrass Book, by Ann Wigmore • Fit for Life, by Harvey & Marilyn Diamond • The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil, by Bruce Fife • Excitotoxins, by Russell Blaylock • Battling the MSG Myth, by Debby Anglesey • In Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome, by George R. Schwartz, M.D." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.) "Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the Ail-American Meal, (New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2002.) Simontacchi, Carol, The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children, (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000.) Starfield, B., Is US Health Really the Best In the World, (JAMA, July 26, 2000) Statistical Abstract of the United States, (U.S. Census Bureau, 1999.) Stauber, John and Sheldon Rampton, Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.) U.S." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"Read the book fast food nation and watch the documentary Super Size Me! After you have finished throwing up, be glad that you are hearing the truth now. Fast food is simply some of the most nutritionally deficient and chemically loaded "food" on the planet. If the definition of food was "fuel for the body that also encourages life," fast food could no longer be called food. It should be called "fast, good tasting poison," which is a more accurate description of what it is." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "I also encourage you strongly to read the book fast food nation so you can see just how bad fast food really is, not only for your health, but for society in general. Think about this: The average American child sees 10,000 food advertisements per year on TV alone. Ninety-five percent of those are for sugared cereals, soft drinks, fast food, and candy. It's not a fair fight. The food industry has the money and the clout to brainwash our children into buying their products, giving us disease and illness." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "And, again, I would encourage you to watch the movie Supersize Me and read the book fast food nation. Question: Are we really full of toxins, and will doing the cleanses really prevent and cure diseases as serious as cancer, diabetes, or heart disease? Answer: Absolutely yes. Every single person has massive amounts of toxic poison material in their body causing illness and disease." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"One of the rare descriptions of it was given by Eric Schlosser in his Fast Food Nation: The IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances) plant in Dayton is a huge pale blue building with a modern office complex attached to the front... Wonderful smells drifted through the hallways... and hundreds of little glass bottles sat on laboratory tables and shelves ... The long chemical names on the little white labels were as mystifying to me as medieval Latin. They were the odd-sounding names of things that would be mixed and poured and turned into new substances, like magic potions..." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

"Eating Our Way to Premature Aging A wave of recent lawsuits blaming fast-food outlets for causing obesity plus the enormous popularity of such books as fast food nation have put fast and snack foods under intense scrutiny. As the typical Western diet with its fast-food phenomena has spread to other countries, there has been a parallel increase in obesity. There is a well-documented link between being overweight and aging. In a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Anna Peeters, Ph.D." - Vincent Giampapa, Ronald Pero, and Marcia Zimmerman, The Anti-Aging Solution: 5 Simple Steps to Looking and Feeling Young (Get the book.)

"As Eric Schlosser discussed so compellingly in fast food nation (Houghton Mifflin, zooi), much of the actual work in the food industry—in agriculture, slaughterhouses, processing plants, and places where food is served—is carried out by immigrants, teenagers, and other groups paid the minimum wage. People can only produce safe food if they know how to do so, if they follow the rules, and if they are themselves in good health. Thus, the production of safe food also depends on the adequacy of fundamental social support systems such as public education and health care." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Here's a (shortened) description of Greeley, as printed in Fast Food Nation: You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. The smell is worst during the summer months, blanketing Greeley day and night like an invisible fog. Many people who live there no longer notice the smell; it recedes into the background, present but not present, like the sound of traffic for New Yorkers." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "As related in Fast Food Nation: The FDA's vow to act quickly soon encountered resistance from the American cattle, meatpacking, meat-processing, feed-manufacturing, and rendering industries. Animal protein was an inexpensive feed additive that promoted growth, and slaughterhouses produced huge volumes of waste that needed to go somewhere. At the time, American cattle were eating about 2 billion pounds of animal protein every year-mainly the remains of other cattle." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"According to Eric Schlosser, author of the bestseller fast food nation, who researched the conditions in U.S. meat slaughtering houses, "Anyone who brings raw ground beef into his or her kitchen today must regard it as a potential biohazard, one that may carry an extremely dangerous microbe, infectious at an extremely low dose."26 A recent US DA study found that during the winter about 1 percent of the cattle found at feedlots carry E. coli 0157:H7 in their guts. This can rise to as much as 50 percent during the summer months.27 Eating meat from cattle infected with E." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, obesity often has nonmedical and environmental roots: the growth of the "fast food nation," the marketing of highly processed foods, infatuation with TV, the loss of sidewalks and bike trails, and the ascendancy of the automobile, to name just a few. Nonetheless, the technological imperative often drives us to doctors for solutions to all sorts of problems, medical and nonmedical. Our cultural preference seems to be for medical solutions (taking weight loss pills or undergoing weight loss surgery) rather than social or environmental solutions." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.)

"In his book fast food nation, Eric Schlosser notes that American spending on fast food went from $6 billion to $110 billion annually in the last thirty years. He states: Fast food is now served at restaurants and drive-thrus, at stadiums, airports, zoos, high schools, elementary schools, and universities, on cruise ships, trains, and airplanes, at K-Marts, Wal-Marts, gas stations, even at hospital cafeterias, (p. 3)12 Fast food is high in fat, calories, and sugar; low in fiber; and nearly devoid of fruits and vegetables beyond fried potatoes." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "Farmers joined with antiglobahzation demonstrators to pressure KFC in places such as Bangalore, and KFC has since abandoned business in India. In fast food nation, Schlosser notes: "The overseas critics of fast food are more diverse than America's old Soviet bloc adversaries. Farmers, leftists, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists, consumer advocates, educators, health officials, labor unions, and defenders of animal rights have found common ground in a campaign against the perceived Americanization of the world." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, 2001, Houghton Mifflin (New York Times Bestseller) Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying our Brains and Harming Our Children, 2000, Tarcher Putnam S. Steingraber, Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey Into Motherhood, Perseus, 2001 C. Williams, Terminus Brain: The Environmental Threats to Human Intelligence, Cassell, 1997 A Primer on Kids' Health Vitality Magazine December 2003 Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. T.S." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

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