The Hundred Year Lie

The Hundred Year Lie

"The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health" (2006) is a book by investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald that examines the rise of the local and global influence of the United States food and chemical industries, and how they have over the last century, altered, affected and damaged the lives of millions of people in the United States by introducing synthetic chemicals into the mainstream food chain.

ummary

The book covers a wide range of topics to do with the issue. It starts by describing the myths that the public believes, that toxicity health issues are 'someone else's problem', and then goes on to talk about what is known to the scientific and chemical communities, and charts the history of the cover-up of chemicals in relation to human health, and the level of business made from this by the chemical companies. The book then goes on in detail about the dangers of food additives, the toxic threats of the processed food humans and animals currently eat, and how this chemical contamination has now affected the water that we drink, and how this has brought on increased biological changes, genetic mutatoins and newly discovered and increasing illnesses and diseases, in both human and animals.

The book ends with a discussion on Western and Eastern medical approaches and philosophies, a focus on alternative medicine and eating healthily, avoiding synthetic foods, and a practical guide on how to detoxify one's body.

Editions

*ISBN 0-52-594951-8 (hardback edition 2006, 304pp.)

Notes

ee also

*"Super Size Me" — a 2004 documentary by Morgan Spurlock on a similar topic.
*"The Corporation" — a 2003 Canadian documentary film critical of the modern-day corporation and its behavior towards society.
*"The Jungle" — a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair on the meatpacking industry. "Fast Food Nation" makes various references to it.
*"Reefer Madness" — a 2003 book by Eric Schlosser examining migrant labor and the pornography and marijuana businesses in America.
*" [http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=161 McLibel: Two Worlds Collide] " — a 2005 extended update of film by Spanner Films documenting the McLibel Trial and Campaign.
*Jennifer Government — a 2003 novel by Max Barry set in a hyper-corporate world, where schools, health care and almost everything else are run by major corporations.
*"Fast Food Nation" — a 2001 book by "Eric Schlosser" examining fast food businesses in America.

External links

* [http://www.hundredyearlie.com/index.html The Hundred Year Lie official website]


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