The Food Revolution - How Your Diet Can Save Your Life and Our World (Plant Based Diet, Food Politics) by Dean Ornish, MD (US edition, paperback) - 9781642503043

Plant-Based Diet Benefits You Should Not Ignore“If every patient in every doctor's office read this book, it would revolutionize the health of America.” —Neal Barnard, MD, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine#1 Bestseller in Agriculture & Food Policy, Vegetables, Special Diet, Vegan & Vegetarian, Healthy Living, Personal Health, and Diets & Weight LossA book from the over-one-million-copies-sold author who made popular the connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism.A revolution in food-politics. When John Robbins released an early version of this book in 1987, he took the first steps in the food revolution. His insight into the harm caused by America’s eating habits was a wake-up call for many.Making conscious food choices. It is obvious to us that what we eat affects our bodies, but what we may not realize is that what we eat also affects our world. In fact, most of the foods that are bad for us (think genetically modified products) also negatively impact our environment. By approaching our eating habits with intentionality, we benefit our own health and that of the world we live in.Plant-based diet benefits. Arguments for a plant-based diet are compelling and backed by over 20 years of work by Robbins focused on the subject of conscious eating. Exposing the dangers in our factory farming system, Robbins makes a definitive case for solely plant-based eating. This timely read on healthy eating will enlighten those curious about plant-based diets and fortify the mindsets of the already converted.Read The Food Revolution and discover:The negative effects of your current eating habitsA powerful case for plant-based eatingWisdom from one of the most frequently cited books of the food-politics revolutionIf you have read books such as We are the Weather, How Not to Die, 31-Day Food Revolution, or Fast Food Genocide, then The Food Revolution is a must read!By exposing the dangers in our factory farming system, Robbins makes a definitive case for solely plant-based eating. This classic read on healthy eating will enlighten those curious about plant-based diets and fortify the mindsets of the already converted.“The Food Revolution provides a cornucopia of arresting and revealing information. Robbins shows, in ways that both shock and fascinate, how the food we produce functions as a fateful link between our health as individuals and the health of the planet that gives us life. Particularly powerful is his well-documented account of the havoc wreaked by the “big cattle” industry on everything from our arteries to our aquifers.” —Ed Ayres, author of God's Last Offer“The Food Revolution is the most comprehensive and persuasive argument ever ass