The hundred-year lie
Subtitle: how food and medicine are destroying your health
By: Randall Fitzgerald
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780525949510
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations; Drug Industry; Food Contamination; Adverse effects; Corrupt practices; Pharmaceutical industry; Side effects; Toxicology; Popular Works; Hazardous Substances; Food; Popular works; Food Industry; Drugs; Alternative medicine; Food industry and trade; Environmental Exposure
Description: A critical exposé of the health consequences of everyday chemicals contends that human beings are now one of the most polluted species on the planet, linking common products to key health issues while challenging safety reports being issued by top chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed food companies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Down the rabbit hole; title: Reading the signs; title: From the womb to the grave; title: A history of the hundred-year lie; title: pt. 2. Strangers in a strange land; title: Wizards of Oz: the food industry; title: Sorcerer's apprentices: the drug and medical industries; title: Are we becoming a mutant species?; title: pt. 3. Beyond apocalypse now; title: Our health is naturally occurring; title: When Western medicine fails; title: Bringing it all home.