num_pages: 336
description: One of Bustle's 17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018  One of The Revelator's 16 New Environmental Books for June  One of Equinox's 5 Books High Performers Should Read in June  One of Foodtank's 18 Books Making a Splash This Summer  One of CivilEats' 22 Noteworthy Food and Farming Books for Summer Readingand BeyondFrom the voice of a new generation of food activists a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you you're wrong. Our foodeven what we're told is good for ushas changed for the worse in the past 100 years its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what were eating.In Formerly Known as Food Kristin Lawless argues that because of the degradation of our diet our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences altering our brains changing the composition of our microbiota and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies health and survival.An independent journalist and nutrition expert Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of eat this not that advice from doctors journalists and food faddists she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problemgoing beyond nutrition to issues of food choice class race and genderand provides a sound and simple philosophy of eating which she calls the Whole Egg Theory.Destined to set the debate over food politics for the next decade Formerly Known as Food speaks to a new generation looking for a different conversation about the food on our plates.
language: English
title: Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
publisher: St. Martin's Press