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Formerly known as food : how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture / Kristin Lawless.

by Lawless, Kristin.

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St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Nutrition -- Social aspects.

Diet -- Social aspects.

Food industry and trade -- Social aspects.

9781250078315 (hc.)

xvii, 317 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How did we end up here? -- Our industrial food landscape : the whole egg theory & how we got here -- What are we actually eating? : industrial food and your health -- Lose your food illusions : "organics" and the missing nutrients in your food -- From the womb to tomb : how the industrial food system is changing us from the inside out -- The industrial food set-up : getting you (and your children) hooked from day one -- Living in a microbial world : industrially processed food and your gut -- New science and failing health agencies -- "So many tips of so many icebergs" : how endocrine disrupting chemicals are harming you -- (and your children, and their children) -- Exposing you to toxic chemicals "safely" : how the regulatory agencies are failing to protect your health -- Understanding our food culture and creating real change -- Food "choice" : the culture of our upside-down food environment -- Handmaidens of industry : women, the home, and unwaged work -- W: can't eat our way out of this crisis: food movement failures and real change -- Conclusion -- A new food movement manifesto.

"If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food -- even what we're told is good for us -- has changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating. In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival. An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of "eat this, not that" advice from doctors, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problem -- going beyond nutrition to issues of food choice, class, race, and gender -- and provides a sound and simple philosophy of eating, which she calls the "Whole Egg Theory." Destined to set the debate over food politics for the next decade, Formerly Known as Food speaks to a new generation looking for a different conversation about the food on our plates."--From publisher.

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