Food Forensics

Thank you NetGalley for the free ARC.

Fine, now I have nothing to eat. This book will take you aback, because pretty much everything we eat is contaminated with metals, pesticides, preservatives - you name it. This is most definitely a sad state of affairs. What does not work for me are some of the solution - for example, move to the country far away from pollution. Err, sorry, that may not be possible. All I can do is be more aware of what I am putting into my body. I am also not quite buying that eating coleslaw negates the effect of bbq and burnt meat on my body. Maybe I will skip the grill out for tonight! Thought provoking.

Informative, but oh so depressing. We're all doomed . . . Even the ones that haven't been born yet! Still it is interesting to know what is happening to our food and environment and what is really happening to our bodies when we choose to consume something. Glad this gave some options to help rid myself of the toxic sludge I'm exposed to from all angles. Fascinating read, but a bit dry. I would recommend it.

A great book to explore more about the contents of pesticides and their harmful effects....

Food Forensics by Mike Adams has the subtitle "The Hidden Toxins Lurking in Your Food and How You Can Avoid Them for Lifelong Health". I started reading the book with high hopes but ended up disappointed. The author admits that the book is technical which is fine. The problem was with the second half of the subtitle "How You Can Avoid Them". I felt the author never really came through. Most of the information was on one of the authors many websites. That seems to information that would be included in the book.

In "Food Forensics," the author talks about his mission and his lab where he tests food for toxic contaminants. He described how toxic metals get into your food, what happens when you eat that food, and what will actually help rid your body of these toxins. He went into detail about dangerous metals (arsenic, mercury, cadmium, aluminum, copper, tin), chemical contaminants (BPA, BPS, hexane, pesticides), food ingredients (aspartame, MSG, artificial colors, and much more), and animal feed contamination.

He also described what foods help your body to detox from these dangers. He pointed out that this is a natural, everyday process and mentioned easy-to-find foods that help the process.

A large section of the book was a list of foods--including organic and superfoods--that he's tested in his lab and the levels of toxins they contained. Unfortunately, this was such a mess on my ebook review copy that I can't tell how useful it actually is. It looked like simple rows of numbers, though, so you'd need to do some interpreting of those numbers.

The author painted a very depressing view of things: every food seems to have some level of toxic load, it would take generations to reverse this if we started now, and there's no hope that this will change this anytime soon with big business more concerned with profits than long-term health.