Metabolical

The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

De: Robert H. Lustig

Narrado por: Charles Constant

The New York Times best-selling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.

Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.

You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the problem is. One of Lustig’s singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to “connect the dots” for the general listener, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the “real story of food” and “the story of real food”.

Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:

• Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself
• You can diagnose your own biochemical profile
• Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable"
• Processed food isn’t just toxic, it’s addictive
• The war between vegan and keto is a false war - the combatants are on the same side
• Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side

Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what’s needed to fix all three.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

©2021 Robert H. Lustig (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Very important book!

very well explained our current processed food crisis. Lays out all medical, economic and political factors of how de got there. As well as ideas on how to fix it on personal and political level.

One of the best books on health

Dr. Lustig has long been somewhat outspoken, and now that he retired from clinical practice, he has opened his vast intelligence and experience, we benefit without pretense. Not beholding to a particular interest or any government or corporate entity, he is as thorough and objective as a person can even as his statistics are at times misleading and skewed to paint liberals in a favorable light while vilifying conservatives. If one wishes to understand health and health status in the nation and world, this is a must-read/listen. Dr. Lustig is an engaging writer who writes with flair and color, and the Narrator, Charles Constant, is the perfect reader/interpreter for this work. All things taken into consideration, this is the ideal blending of careful research, medical excellence, beautifully read with optimal interpretive flair.

Moron vegans

Think if we could Focus on the simple facts instead of whatever drives clicks today. We need to convert from a processed food diet to a natural diet. No one should have to read a book about it to understand. But if you do this is a great one.

Criminal!

(the way the food and medical industries keep people sick and dying in order to make a profit) Everyone should know about this!

Should be required reading!

This is a response to another review. One of my favorite things about Dr Lustig is that he isn't selling a diet, this is the science and history of nutrition. Dr Lustig states in his interviews that this was written as a usable textbook for medical students and I love the history lessons to explain how we got here! I'm a staunch conservative and absolutely believe we humans are not taking care of Earth as we are supposed to and to deny that is ludicrous. If you want a healing diet, look at Dr Terry Wahl's Protocol. She has managed her MS and is helping people to heal from many diseases.
There is so much misinformation out there and this book helps you understand why! Nutrition management IS political and it is up to us to demand better! Wonderful book!

A book to devour and digest!

I absolutely loved this book! I have previously referred to Dr. Lustig’s videos on both of my nutrition and medical Biochemistry classes, but I wish I could make this book a requirement for medical school!!! Thank you, Dr. Lustig, for writing out loud what is revolving in my head for the last 10 years! Thank you for making me feel normal and not a failure in relation to my weight and wellbeing! Please count me as one more person to join the Real Food movement! FYI to my medical students: there will be no more chocolate, sweets or power bars at my office, but instead you might find fresh organic celery, carrots or other real food treats!

GOOD LEARNING TOOL

It has food science, sociology, politics, psychology, economics and more. This was a good kearning tool and reinforcer of what we should already know. Well read and excellently written!

Unbelievable

The most complete piece of work on this subject. Lustig is a true hero!

Great Information

Thank you for the information! I never knew about food fraud for example. Hoping for big changes!

supported by science!

I enjoyed the fact the author's statements were supported by research and studies.
I thought the information was outlined and presented well.