What's really in your food? This expos reveals the hidden toxins lurking in America's food supply that corporations don't want you to know. With obesity and chronic disease rates skyrocketing, something is clearly wrong with our modern diet and food system. But it's not just about calories or nutrients. Dangerous ingredients and contaminants in everyday foods could be making us sick. In Toxic America: The Hidden Poisons in Our Food, investigative health journalist Jennifer M. SMITH blows the lid off the processed food industry's disturbing use of cheap chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and packaging toxins that scientific studies have linked to cancer, infertility, diabetes, and neurological disorders. Green's hard-hitting book digs into the alarming truth of: ✔️ How America became addicted to hyper-processed junk foods loaded with health-harming yet profitable artificial additives and sweeteners ✔️ The pesticide residue loopholes that allow fruits and veggies, even baby food, to contain questionable amounts of neurotoxic chemicals ✔️ The FDA's controversial approval of growth hormones in cattle that turn up in our meat and dairy, wreaking havoc on human hormones ✔️ The industrial and environmental pollutants contaminating seafood, amplifying up the food chain to the dinner table ✔️ The endocrine-disrupting packaging chemicals that leach into food even before you take a bite Armed with in-depth research and insider industry sources, Smith exposes how corporations hid critical health data from regulators and misled consumers to pad profits at the expense of public safety. This urgent call-to-action educates eaters on the startling prevalence of dietary toxins and provides practical tips for avoiding exposure, especially for those most vulnerable - pregnant women, infants, and children. It's time we demand transparency and vote for a food future that nourishes, not poisons. Toxic America empowers readers to protect their health and catalyzes citizens and lawmakers to implement the sweeping policy changes we need to remove toxins from our food and revitalize public health. The future of food is in our hands.
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