Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture
Written by Kristin Lawless
Narrated by Jennywren Walker
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
“Unless you make it yourself, you have no idea what you are eating and Kristin Lawless explains why. You better read this book before you put another bite of food in your or your kids mouths!” — Laurie David, Academy Award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and Fed Up
From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and deeply-researched call for a new food movement.
If you think buying organic from Whole Foods is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food—even what we're told is good for us—has changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating.
In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival.
An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of "eat this, not that" advice from doctors, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problem—going beyond nutrition to issues of food choice, class, race, and gender—and provides a sound and simple philosophy of eating, which she calls the "Whole Egg Theory."
Destined to set the debate over food politics for the next decade, Formerly Known as Food speaks to a new generation looking for a different conversation about the food on our plates.
Kristin Lawless
KRISTIN LAWLESS (previously published as Kristin Wartman) is the author of Formerly Known As Food and an independent journalist focusing on the intersections of food, health, politics, and culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek, VICE, Huffington Post, and Civil Eats, as well as in academic journals, such as The Black Scholar, Critical Quarterly, and The New Labor Forum. Kristin is a Certified Nutrition Educator and works as a nutrition consultant with doctors in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
Related to Formerly Known As Food
Related audiobooks
The End of Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Grain of Salt: The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Grain Truth: The Real Case for and Against Wheat and Gluten Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bad Food Bible: How and Why to Eat Sinfully Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs: The Simple Truth about Food, Weight, and Disease Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How To Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered: A Food Science Nutrition Weight Loss Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Saved by Science: The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Smart Fat: Eat More Fat. Lose More Weight. Get Healthy Now. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession With Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Wellness For You
The Silent Patient Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Highly Sensitive Person Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Happiness Makeover: Overcome Stress and Negativity to Become a Hopeful, Happy Person Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last House on Needless Street Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Heart Is a Chainsaw Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grow Up: Becoming the Parent Your Kids Deserve Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Switch on Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moneyzen: The Secret to Finding Your ""Enough"" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in ""Healthy"" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Formerly Known As Food
7 ratings1 review
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Largely derivative, not sure the author really understands what she is talking about but quite certain she likes being scared.