Food Forensics
The Hidden Toxins Lurking in Your Food and How You Can Avoid Them for Lifelong Health
by Mike Adams
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Pub Date Jul 26 2016 | Archive Date Jul 26 2016
Description
Award-winning investigative journalist and clean food activist Mike Adams, the “Health Ranger,” is founder and editor of Natural News, one of the top health news websites in the world, reaching millions of readers each month.
Now, in Food Forensics, Adams meticulously tests groceries, fast foods, dietary supplements, spices, and protein powders for heavy metals and toxic elements that could be jeopardizing your health.
To conduct this extensive research, Adams built a state-of-the-art laboratory with cutting-edge scientific instruments. Publishing results of metal concentrations for more than 800 different foods, Food Forensics is doing the job the FDA refuses to do: testing off-the-shelf foods and sharing the findings so the public can make informed decisions about what they consume or avoid.
In Food Forensics, you’ll discover little-known truths about other toxic food ingredients such as polysorbate 80, MSG, sodium nitrite, pesticides, and weed killers such as glyphosate. Adams reveals stunning, never-before-reported details of heavy metals found in recycled human waste used on crops and in parks, and he explains how industrial pollution causes mercury, lead, and cadmium to end up in your favorite protein powders.
This book will forever change your view of food safety, regulation, and manufacturing. When you know what’s really in your food, you can start making changes to protect yourself against serious diseases like cancer, all while maximizing your natural immune defenses against infection and disease.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781940363288 |
| PRICE | $16.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Tina F, Educator
Thank you NetGalley for the free ARC.
Fine, now I have nothing to eat. This book will take you aback, because pretty much everything we eat is contaminated with metals, pesticides, preservatives - you name it. This is most definitely a sad state of affairs. What does not work for me are some of the solution - for example, move to the country far away from pollution. Err, sorry, that may not be possible. All I can do is be more aware of what I am putting into my body. I am also not quite buying that eating coleslaw negates the effect of bbq and burnt meat on my body. Maybe I will skip the grill out for tonight! Thought provoking.
sharanya p, Reviewer
A great book to explore more about the contents of pesticides and their harmful effects....
Reviewer 284405
Food Forensics by Mike Adams has the subtitle "The Hidden Toxins Lurking in Your Food and How You Can Avoid Them for Lifelong Health". I started reading the book with high hopes but ended up disappointed. The author admits that the book is technical which is fine. The problem was with the second half of the subtitle "How You Can Avoid Them". I felt the author never really came through. Most of the information was on one of the authors many websites. That seems to information that would be included in the book.
Deborah W, Reviewer
In "Food Forensics," the author talks about his mission and his lab where he tests food for toxic contaminants. He described how toxic metals get into your food, what happens when you eat that food, and what will actually help rid your body of these toxins. He went into detail about dangerous metals (arsenic, mercury, cadmium, aluminum, copper, tin), chemical contaminants (BPA, BPS, hexane, pesticides), food ingredients (aspartame, MSG, artificial colors, and much more), and animal feed contamination.
He also described what foods help your body to detox from these dangers. He pointed out that this is a natural, everyday process and mentioned easy-to-find foods that help the process.
A large section of the book was a list of foods--including organic and superfoods--that he's tested in his lab and the levels of toxins they contained. Unfortunately, this was such a mess on my ebook review copy that I can't tell how useful it actually is. It looked like simple rows of numbers, though, so you'd need to do some interpreting of those numbers.
The author painted a very depressing view of things: every food seems to have some level of toxic load, it would take generations to reverse this if we started now, and there's no hope that this will change this anytime soon with big business more concerned with profits than long-term health.
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