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How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health
Dutton
June 2006
On Sale: June 22, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0525949518
EAN: 9780525949510
Hardcover
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Combining the impact of the classic bestseller Silent
Spring with Fast Food Nation, The Hundred-Year
Lie presents a devastating exposé of how chemicals in
everyday products are ruining our health. Over the
past one hundred years, we have been guinea pigs in a vast
chemistry experiment that uses our bodies, our health, and
our good will to test the proposition that modern science
can improve upon nature. In The Hundred-Year
Lie, investigative journalist RandallFitzgerald shatters
dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical,
pharmaceutical and processed food industries. Find
out why you would never be FDA-approved—and why humans are
becoming one of the most polluted species on the planet:
• The average American now carries a “body burden” of 700 or
more synthetic chemicals, including Teflon, plastics, and
dozens of pesticides.
• Musk fragrances used in
detergents and air fresheners are not filtered out by our
current water treatment facilities, ending up in our
drinking water.
• The artificial sweetener aspartame, an
ingredient in 1,200 food products from diet drinks to
chewing gum, has been linked to eighty-eight toxic
symptoms.
Fitzgerald not only sheds light on the
problems we face from the unprecedented chemical onslaught,
he presents suggestions for what we can to do to turn the tide.
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