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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 5 PART I; HOW FACTORY FOOD CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE . . . AND DIE 1. America's Missed Opportunity for Utopia 11 PART II; HYSTERICAL HUNGER 2. Socially Acceptable Sugar Addiction 28 3. Science Fiction High-Fructose Corn Syrup 41 4. The Government Protects the Sugar Industry 49 PART III; SCIENCE FICTION FOOD ADDITIVES 5. MSG Keeps Us Coming Back for More 59 6. Aspartame Poisoning, Urban Legend or Fact? 69 7. FDA-Approved Murder by Supermarket 78 PART IV; SCIENCE FICTION FOOD 8. Soy: Internet Paranoia; or Fact? 92 9. Isoflavone Supplementation 99 10. O.K., So Asians Do Eat Soy 107 11. The Weird Science of Modern Soy 112 12. Feeding Babies Soybean Formula 123 13. No Reasoned Discussions about Soy 129 PART V; THE FAT FIASCO 14. Fat Kills! 135 15. So What Are Polyunsaturated Fats Anyway? 144 16. How Studies Influence What We Put in our Mouths 153 17. Finally Americans Are Told the Truth about Trans Fats 159 18. Saturated Animal Fat Good, Trans Fats Bad 164 19. Factory Milk 182 20. Factory Milk Does a Body Bad 189 21. Natural Milk to the Rescue 197 PART VI; DIETING IS ONLY MAKING MATTERS WORSE 22. The Malnutrition of Low-Calorie Dieting 209 23. The Low-Fat Diet Made Us Fat and Sick 223 24. Low-Carbohydrate Dieting Was a Bust 235 25. The Basics of a Real Food Diet 241 PART VII; MIRACLES IN A BOTTLE, SNAKE OIL SUPPLEMENTS, AND DRUGS 26. That @*#!& Stress is Making us Fat! 254 27. Snake Oil Supplements 269 28. Drug Pushers 274 PART VIII; WOOING, DENIAL, RIDICULE AND THREATS . . . AND WHY WE BUY INTO THEM 29. Wooing, Denial, Ridicule and Threats 303 30. We Are All in This Together 318 PART IX; THE HOME FRONT 31. Change Begins at Home 335 Conclusion: What Thomas Jefferson Would Have Done 347 Endnotes 360 Index TK
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Food industry and trade -- Health aspects -- United States.
Food industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States.
Obesity -- United States.
Nutrition -- United States.
Food habits -- United States.
Convenience foods -- Health aspects -- United States.
Lifestyles -- Health aspects -- United States.