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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. (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Agricultural & Food Sciences Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Food Science Science Sociology Inspiring Heartfelt Nutrition Health Healthy Diet Thought-Provoking Dementia Medicine
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Best read of the year. Not only is Robert Lustig making an eloquently clear case in a field muddied with mis-information, but you feel the weight of his deep practical experience and his massive research referencing exercise. Kudos for the bravery to say this stuff given the flack so many others have faced in the past.

Brave, honest, hard hitting

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Robotic Sat-Nav-sounding narration made it difficult to hold my attention for more than 20 mins at a time.

Shame about the Robotic narration

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Really enjoyed this book as a scientist myself and so much information to digest. I loved the science and recommendations for eating. Some chapters were a little slower than others. Def recommended!

So much information - enlightening

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Very much enjoyed this book when it remained focused on the subject matter (>90% of the time). regarding metabolic health, can not fault it. Unfortunately, the author allows some TDS to creep in regularly, and for someone so suspicious of big pharma and big food, he swallows the big carbon industry propaganda hook line, and it doesn't really fit well in the book. There is also a section on how the author met big wigs at the UN and was clearly sold on their message.

In short, great book on food and metabolic health that wanders off subject at times.

Brilliant...when on subject

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This is an excellent book, very informative about how we self sabotage and make ourselves ill through sugar addiction m(myself included) to increase corporations profit margins.

Astoundingly informative

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