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A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement by Philip Ackerman-Leist [Ackerman-Leist, Philip] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Exploring the links between GM foods, glyphosate, and gut health With chronic disorders among American children reaching epidemic levels, hundreds of thousands of parents are desperately seeking solutions to their children's declining health, often with little medical guidance from the experts. What's Making Our Children Sick? convincingly explains how agrochemical industrial production and genetic modification of foods is a culprit in this epidemic. Is it the only culprit? No. Most chronic health disorders have multiple causes and require careful disentanglement and complex treatments. But what if toxicants in our foods are a major culprit, one that, if corrected, could lead to tangible results and increased health? Using patient accounts of their clinical experiences and new medical insights about pathogenesis of chronic pediatric disorders—taking us into gut dysfunction and the microbiome, as well as the politics of food science—this book connects the dots to explain our kids'ailing health. What's Making Our Children Sick? explores the frightening links between our efforts to create higher-yield, cost-efficient foods and an explosion of childhood morbidity, but it also offers ho

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Philip Ackerman-Leist [Ackerman-Leist, Philip]
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781603582568
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Family & Relationships, Science, Gardening
Rating
3.95 / 5 (52 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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