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"In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific and medical communities--as well as food manufacturers--already know, which is that food can, in some cases, be even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs. Our bodies are hard-wired for sweets, so food manufacturers have deployed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; we've evolved...
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Language
English
Description
Provides entrepreneurs with advice on all aspects of launching a home-based food business, covering product development and testing, marketing, structuring a business, managing regulations, and planning for the future. --Publisher's description.
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English
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"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
"What if you couldn't afford nine dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost - which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It turns out that a fake relationship is the perfect recipe for a love that sizzles hotter than Santa Barbara's spiciest salsa-when it's between enemies. Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he underestimated Carolina Flores. The agricultural hotshot should have been an easy conquest-who would turn down the chance to partner with California's largest fast-food chain?...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
Description
The "Minimalist" columnist outlines an eating plan that is comprised of environmentally responsible choices, in a guide that shares insight into the risks associated with livestock production.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
Description
In "Waste, " Stuart points out that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets, and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their food supplies--enough to feed all the world's hungry three times over. Traveling from China to New York, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy--but also inspiring innovations--to the global food crisis.
12) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are corrupted by money and lobbies that drive our biggest global crises: the spread of obesity and food-related chronic disease, climate change, poverty, violence, educational achievement gaps, and more."--Publisher's website.
15) The end of food
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 390 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xii, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by midcentury--which he argues would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment points to a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge--combined with an increased demand created by population and economic growth. Writing in brisk, accessible prose,...
17) Formerly known as food: how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diets, 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, going beyond nutrition to issues of...
19) The food co-op handbook: how to bypass supermarkets to control the quality and price of your food
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
xvi, 382 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigates the trends and technologies that are transforming the world of food, including America's obsession with Japan, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
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