The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health this question feed

asked by avi on November 21, 2006 3:00 PM
Combining the impact of the classic bestseller Silent Spring with Fast Food Nation, The Hundred-Year Lie presents a devastating exposé of how chemicals in everyday products are ruining our health.

Over the past one hundred years, we have been guinea pigs in a vast chemistry experiment that uses our bodies, our health, and our good will to test the proposition that modern science can improve upon nature.

In The Hundred-Year Lie, investigative journalist RandallFitzgerald shatters dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical, pharmaceutical and processed food industries.

Find out why you would never be FDA-approved—and why humans are becoming one of the most polluted species on the planet:
• The average American now carries a “body burden” of 700 or more synthetic chemicals, including Teflon, plastics, and dozens of pesticides.
• Musk fragrances used in detergents and air fresheners are not filtered out by our current water treatment facilities, ending up in our drinking water.
• The artificial sweetener aspartame, an ingredient in 1,200 food products from diet drinks to chewing gum, has been linked to eighty-eight toxic symptoms.

Fitzgerald not only sheds light on the problems we face from the unprecedented chemical onslaught, he presents suggestions for what we can to do to turn the tide.


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Definitely a modern day must read. Hopefully this book will serve as a wake-up call for some people. It seems like a good idea to think about what we put in our bodies. I found the book very well-researched and realistically poignant at that. I also liked that he not only assesses the grim state of affairs, but he offers a solution as well. The only thing that Mr. Fitzgerald forgets to mention is that a lot of the times toxic substances are also added to the the supplements that he recommends taking (such as Ginko Biloba, etc.) as a part of the manufacturing process.
reviewed by mags on November 29, 2006 12:53 PM

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I found this book to be very educational. In fact it has affected the lives of my entire family. We have taken his information and made many
changes in our lifestyle. I believe this should be required reading for
all Americans. I suggest it to everyone I meet.
reviewed by 78704 on November 29, 2006 3:59 PM

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I liked it a great deal... so much so that I could hardly put the book down.... I loved the way the book took a look back a hundred years ago to show us how we have changed and why we have changed as a people...I highly recommend this one!
reviewed by dignified1 on November 29, 2006 5:19 PM

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Randall Fitzgerald has detailed the history of the Pure Food and Drug Act through its first 100 years. It is a frightening account of how a well intentioned Act of government has become a threat to the very people it was intended to protect. He clearly shows that greed on the part of the food and drug industries have put shareholder profits ahead of the well-being of the people.
He gives well documented proof that our food is killing us because of additives that are known toxins. This is permitted by government officials who are in the pockets of the industry, solely to add shelf life or artificial taste to the products. Proof of his research is the cancer, diabetes and other debilitating diseases that are completely out of control, with their major cause being the food we eat and air we breathe.
reviewed by faithfulone on November 29, 2006 6:29 PM

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