
Metabolical
The Truth About Processed Food and How It Poisons People and the Planet
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Charles Constant
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Dr Robert Lustig
About this listen
It's not what you eat that's damaging your health; it's how that food is 'made'. The truth behind ultra-processed food that the food industry doesn't want you to know.
Did you know that 62 per cent of the food in our supermarkets is not only processed but 'ultra-processed' (ingredients from other foods are combined to make something 'new', often in colours that do not exist in nature) and that data shows that by eating this kind of food over time we are literally slowly poisoning ourselves?
In the hard-hitting, groundbreaking tradition of his NY Times best seller Fat Chance, which revealed the dangers of sugar, Dr Robert Lustig persuasively presents a stark exposé of how our addiction to processed foods (aided and abetted by the food industry, big ag, big pharma, institutional medicine and the government) is behind the lethal increase in major non-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, cancer and dementia. We have come to accept that these chronic diseases are simply part of the 'natural ageing process', but Dr Lustig makes the case that this is simply not true.
The solution on both a personal and societal level is a return to unprocessed food, and Dr Lustig offers a doable plan for us to heal and restore our own health and well-being with real food, and in the process boosting our immunity to viruses like COVID-19.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2021 Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL (P)2021 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about Metabolical
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- Jonathan
- 10-09-2022
Excellent wake-up call!
Loved the book content and the narration. Timely wake-up call to what goes on with food companies and pharmaceutical companies to keep selling us their products. We know it deep down I guess but this is packed with facts and figures providing us the information to argue the case with our friends and family. Get them all onto the real food bandwagon and get your health and vitality back fast. Lost 5 pounds during the 2 weeks I listened to this without exercising, just avoiding junk!
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- Anonymous User
- 27-05-2021
Metabolical shows why you need to care about food
This book makes all other dietary books supplemental.
It should be taught in all schools.
You owe it to yourself and your family to read it.
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- Janet Gahan
- 21-01-2025
Understand food and why processing is so unhealthy.
Robert Lustig is straightforward in his information. Some early chapters are challenging but worth listening to. His later chapters are insightful about the food companies.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-01-2023
Tremendous help for a carer of dementia, diabetic & chronic kidney disease patient
Dr Robert Lustig’s no holds research presents pertinent and helpful foundations for me as a carer of my mother’s long list of health issues — most of which, are reversible. Highly recommended!
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- merlin
- 13-02-2022
Too much politics, otherwise scientific
Good idea behind the book.
Concerned about folks' health.
Looks into causes, finds diet and misinformation n corporate greed to blame, along with entrenched bad science, scientists and phony professionals.
Finds much politics.
While all no doubt true, it's a bit doomy n gloomy and gets depressing.
He hopes the book'll make it digferent, it may.
Good man, good science, good intentions.
Too much irony/drama in narrator, grates at times.
Will yhis book change out a completely broken system?
Nope but folk becoming aware will.
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- Deegee
- 17-02-2024
Wake-up call
This book has information everyone needs to know and act on to enable better life and health choices.
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- neil h gamble
- 10-06-2021
Phenomenal Metabolical
Robert Lustig brings it all together - the corruption, the failure of the education systems, the failure of the scientists and the deepseated irresponsibility of the ill-health industry. Amazing book that inspires us to move as far away from has been created as is possible.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-07-2022
Life Changing Book
Brilliant forensic examination of diet, metabolism and modern industrial food production. Written by a distinguished paediatrician who has walked the walk and has the clinician’s knack for explaining complex issues with simple aphorisms. I’m sure I will use this in my own life and clinical practice. Thankyou Dr Lustig
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- Jan Powell
- 18-08-2021
Must read for everyone
Excellent explanations. If everyone listened to this the world would change. A must read for everyone.
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- Rob
- 06-01-2022
A Seminal Work!
This book outlines the science on how processed & ultra-processed foods laden with sugar & additives are slowly poisoning us. It provides the reader/listener with the science on how processed foods "hack" one's brain and the damage this addiction to sugar inflicts on our own health, and on govt health budgets. The author calls out Big Food, Big Pharma, the medical & allied health professions & their lobbyists who have led governments world wide down a path of allowing us to all be slowly poisoned. The book also examines how the "Processed Food Industrial Complex" is adversely impacting on the environment & climate change globally. The book provides a simple solution... eat real food! We all know this intrinsically, but most of us in this modern world are sugar addicts without realising it. This book educates the reader/listener with the science & the facts to do something about it, starting with improving one's own health & those of our nearest & dearest. Required reading for anyone who cares about their own health & the health of our planet.
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