Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

by Vani Hari

Overview

In this book, New York Times best-selling author Vani Hari, “The Food Babe,” exposes the flagrant lies we’ve been fed about the food we eat—lies about its nutrient value, effects on our health, label information, and even the very science on which we make our food choices.

Feeding You Lies guides readers on how to eat foods that truly fill us with nutrients, while discussing the reasons why we continue to fail at becoming healthy, despite our best efforts. It also provides an easy-to-follow plan to help readers avoid this chemical onslaught—and get healthy in the process. Some of the topics covered include:

• How processing strips vital nutrients from our food
• Scandalous cover-ups by the sugar industry to deflect the deadly health risks of sugar, away from sugar to dietary fat
• Food marketing hoaxes such as gluten-free and fat-free
• Synthetic fortification of food to make products appear healthier than they really are

This book offers a 48-hour Toxin Takedown to rid your house and body of food toxins, as well as a 30-Day Lifestyle Challenge, a blueprint for living your life without preservatives, natural and artificial sweeteners, GMOs, additives food dyes, fillers, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401954543
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	02/19/2019
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	57,010
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Vani Hari started FoodBabe.com in April 2011 to spread information about what is really in the American food supply. She teaches people how to make the right purchasing decisions at the grocery store, how to live an organic lifestyle, and how to travel healthfully around the world. The success in her writing and investigative work can be seen in the way food companies react to her uncanny ability to find and expose the truth. Impassioned by knowing how food affects health, Vani loves sharing her message on the blogosphere to 3 million unique readers across the globe. Through her work, Vani has impacted the policies and approaches of major food companies such as Subway, Chick-Fil-A, Kraft, Panera Bread, Whole Foods, Lean Cuisine, McDonalds, General Mills, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Chipotle, Yoforia, and Moe’s South West Grill.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part I The Liars 2

Chapter 1 The Guilty Parties; Lies and Ties 3

Chapter 2 Spreading Food Lies 25

Part II The Lies 52

Chapter 3 Us versus the Rest of the World 53

Chapter 4 Weighing Calories 53

Chapter 5 Sugar: The Bittersweet Facts 81

Chapter 6 Sipping Sabotage

Chapter 7 "Free" Food: A High Cost to Health 119

Chapter 8 Flavor: It's Not Natural 139

Chapter 9 Fortified Food Fraud 153

Chapter 10 Weed Killer for Dinner 169

Chapter 11 Organic Deception 177

Chapter 12 Three Questions That Will Transform Your Health 197

Bonus Section: The 48-Hour Toxin Takedown 207

The 48-Hour Toxin Takedown Plan 209

The 48-Hour Toxin Takedown Recipes 223

Lifelong Detox: Where to Go from Here 227

Appendix 231

Endnotes 249

Index 281

Acknowledgments 295

About the Author 297

Interviews

Charlotte, NC

Editorial Reviews

There are 3,000 food additives in our food supply, many of which have not been tested for safety, and the average American consumes three to five pounds of these chemicals a year. In Feeding You Lies, Vani Hari pulls back the veil of deception by the food industry, scientists, and the media designed to manipulate us and ignore the unnecessary harms in our food supply. The deep investigation of the actions of the media, food companies, and science to suppress the truth will shock you, make you stop and consider what you put in your mouth, as well as empower you with the tools and strategies to protect yourself from bad foods and lies. If you eat, read this book.”
— Mark Hyman, M.D., #1 New York Times best-selling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? and director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine

“A tangled web of deception is unraveled in this provocative page-turner! My eyes are now wide open thanks to Vani’s tireless investigative work to expose the truth about the food we eat.”
— Lewis Howes, New York Times best-selling author of The School of Greatness

“With all the wrongdoings exposed in this book, it’s no wonder that so many are confused about what to eat! You’ll never walk into a grocery store with the same outlook after learning the revealing information presented in this thoughtful read.”
— Frank Lipman, M.D., New York Times best-selling author of The New Health Rules and How to Be Well

“Our food is making many of us fat, sick, and miserable; but it’s making certain companies billions of dollars. To us, the fact that disease rates are skyrocketing is a matter of life or death; but to them, it’s just a PR problem. This magnificent book by the courageous and brilliant food activist Vani Hari shows you how to see through the lies, how to know the truth about what you are eating, and how to feed yourself and your family foods that will truly nourish your body, your mind, and your spirit.”
— John Robbins, co-founder and president of Food Revolution Network and best-selling author of Diet for a New America

“The tobacco industry survived for decades by marketing ‘doubt as our product.’ Big Food is following in their footsteps. I am grateful to Vani Hari for exposing the abuse of trust and the descending health of the public at the hands of Big Food. Her simple Three Question Detox is a platform to upgrade the health of your family. Everyone should read this book.”
— Joel Kahn, M.D., FACC, clinical professor of medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and author of The Plant-Based Solution

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