President Trump doesn’t just deliberately avoid using the White House’s gourmet kitchen for McDonald’s because he prefers fast food — he’s also paranoid about being poisoned, according to a new book. “[Trump] had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and […]
Whitewash: The Story Of A Weed Killer, Cancer, And The Corruption Of Science
It’s in our food, our water, our air, soil and our own bodies. It’s the most widely used herbicide in all of human history, and while farmers and homeowners alike use it regularly, this pesticide carries an array of dangers the corporations that profit from it don’t want you to know about. Whitewash makes it clear that […]
Return To Fukushima: Eerie Pictures Show After-Effects Of Nuclear Chain Reaction
Nuclear meltdown. It is the worst nightmare of modern humanity. Forces we barely understand that seem so fundamentally powerful and dangerous that we think of them only in terms of profound unease. Isotopic radiation – the worst of all monsters, the invisible fiend that can alter our very DNA. An idea so terrifying that the […]
The New Health Rules: Simple Changes to Achieve Whole-Body Wellness
The New Health Rules: Simple Changes to Achieve Whole-body Wellness. It’s a personal compendium of integrative health’s wisest mantras. Inspired by the needs of time-pressed patients and their fast-paced lives, co-author Danielle Claro and Frank Lipman, M.D., have assembled 100+ of my most memorable integrative health tips and paired them with more than 80 lush photographs. And […]
Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food
Readers of Bet the Farm will glimpse the power behind global food and understand what truly supports the system that has brought mass misery to our planet. Our food is getting less healthy, less delicious, and more expensive even as the world’s biggest food companies and food scientists say things are better than ever and that […]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan Book
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the best-selling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? […]
In Defense of Food – An Eater’s Manifesto – Michael Pollan Book
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the dauting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend […]