Among the important points made, and well documented, are that:
- Chronic diseases are not "druggable", but they are "foodable".
- Processed food isn't just toxic, it's addictive.
- Ultraprocessed food should absolutely be avoided.
- Big Food and Big Pharma (among others) are to blame.
- The solutions to better healthspan are straightforward, far less expensive than what we are doing now, and readily available to almost all of us, individually.
There are so many quotables and so many memorable passages in this book. I'll share just two of them and leave you with a plea to read the book --- for your health:
"You can therefore consider this book as both my act of contrition to you, the public, and my act of medical disobedience to the medical establishment. Perhaps I had to wait until I was retired from clinical practice to write this book . . .'medical heresy'".
"Nutrition is not the same as food science. Nutrition is what happens to food between the mouth and the cell. Food science is what happens to food between the ground and the mouth. Each is dependent on the other, yet both are 'opaque' to the public. That's on purpose --- because the food industry and the government don't want you to know that it's the food processing that's rendered the current concepts of nutrition moot."
[I have no affiliation with Dr. Lustig or his publisher --- just a great appreciation for the way he has exposed and uncovered so much of what's wrong and provided suggestions for fixing things.]