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What''s Making Our Children Sick?: How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It

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By (author): Dr. Michelle Perro Vincanne Adams

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 childrens declining health, often with little medical guidance from the experts. Whats 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 disorderstaking us into gut dysfunction and the microbiome, as well as the politics of food sciencethis book connects the dots to explain our kids ailing health.

Whats 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 hope and a path to effecting change. The predicament we now face is simple. Agroindustrial innovation in a previous era hoped to prevent the ecosystem disaster of DDT predicted in Rachel Carsons seminal book in 1962, Silent Spring. However, this industrial agriculture movement has created a worse disaster: a toxic environment and, consequently, a toxic food supply. Pesticide use is at an all-time high, despite the fact that biotechnologies aimed to reduce the need for them in the first place. Today these chemicals find their way into our livestock and food crop industries and ultimately onto our plates. Many of these pesticides are the modern day equivalent of DDT. However, scant research exists on the chemical soup of poisons that our children consume on a daily basis. As our food supply environment reels under the pressures of industrialization via agrochemicals, our kids have become the walking evidence of this failed experiment. Whats Making Our Children Sick? exposes our current predicament and offers insight on the medical responses that are available, both to heal our kids and to reverse the compromised health of our food supply.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 431g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Dec 2017
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781603587570

About Dr. Michelle PerroVincanne Adams

Michelle Perro MD is a veteran pediatrician with over thirty-five years of experience in acute and integrative medicine. More than ten years ago Dr. Perro transformed her clinical practice to include pesticide and health advocacy. She has both directed and worked as attending physician from New Yorks Metropolitan Hospital to UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital Oakland. Dr. Perro has managed her own business Down to Earth Pediatrics. She is currently lecturing and consulting as well as working with Gordon Medical Associates an integrative health center in Northern California. Vincanne Adams PhD is a professor and vice-chair of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology History and Social Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Adams has previously published six books on the social dynamics of health scientific knowledge and politics including most recently Markets of Sorrow Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (2013) and Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (2016). She is currently editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly the flagship journal for the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.

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