
What the Health
The Startling Truth Behind the Foods We Eat, Plus 50 Plant-Rich Recipes to Get You Feeling Your Best
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The definitive, stand-alone companion book to the acclaimed documentary - now with 50 plant-based recipes and full-color photos to help you start changing your health for the better
There’s something terribly broken in our industrial food, medical, and pharmaceutical systems. What’s going wrong? Can we really avoid the leading causes of death just by changing our diet? Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, creators of the revolutionary What the Health and the award-winning Cowspiracy documentaries, take listeners on a science-based tour of the hazards posed by consuming animal products - and what happens when we stop.
What the Health will guide you on an adventure through this maze of misinformation with the same fresh, engaging approach that made the documentary so popular. Journey with Andersen and Kuhn as they crisscross the country, talking to doctors, dietitians, public health advocates, whistle-blowers, and world-class athletes, to uncover the truth behind the food we eat. With the help of writer Eunice Wong, they empower eaters with knowledge about the lethal entwining of the food, medical, and pharmaceutical industries, and about the corporate web that confuses the public and keeps Americans chronically - and profitably - ill.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (P)2019 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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- Sri
- 02-22-23
Great read
Overall great read and many citations needs to be verified fir readers if they chooses to do.
I agree with author, nothing is more important than health. What you put in is what you get!
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- Beez Nutz
- 05-30-20
aliens know that meat is killing us 👽🛸
I've been talking a lot with my alien friends and we've been discussing both the film and this book which you can only get from audible. I've been told by them for many years that meat is killing us and that's why they make crop circles as a message but nobody takes it seriously and then the meat and produce companies came out and said the crab circles were hoax but they're not a hoax they're real and I talked to my alien friend Ralph and he's really upset about this and he's been going to therapy and he has a pet dog is named Coco Coco eats nothing but vegetables and is very healthy and playful and Ralph is really cool and he likes baseball especially American baseball and he really likes Khloe Kardashian but he doesn't like Kim because he's married to Kanye and Kanye thinks he knows more about aliens than actual aliens and that makes them very upset. I also like this book. there is a lot of good information on what the meat and dairy industries are doing to suppress information on what diseases their products cause. follow me for more recipes and great reviews
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- Michelle
- 05-04-19
THE BEST! Everyone should read this!
I have read a lot of books like this one; in my opinion, this is the best one, and the documentary is the best film on the subject of health. I wish everyone would watch the film and read (or listen to) the book. They have much of the same information, but the book has additional information. Another excellent book is How Not to Die by Michael Greger.
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- bob
- 05-26-24
Read and thrive
Previously knew about fruits & veggies but not aware of the deleterious effects of dairy. “Drop the dairy“, From a recovering cheese addict.
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