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The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health Paperback - 2007

by Randall Fitzgerald

An investigative journalist shatters dozens of myths being perpetuated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed food industries, and reveals why humans are becoming one of the most polluted species on the planet.

Summary

In a devastating exposé in the tradition of Silent Spring and Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on the planet. A century ago in 1906, when Congress enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act, Americans were promised ?better living through chemistry.? Fitzgerald provides overwhelming evidence to shatter this myth, and many others perpetrated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processed foods industries. In the face of this national health crisis, Fitzgerald also presents informed and practical suggestions for what we can do to turn the tide and live healthier lives.

Consider this:
? The average American carries a ?body burden? of 700 synthetic chemicals
? Chemicals in tap water can cause reproductive abnormalities and hermaphroditic birth
? A 2005 study of lactating women in eighteen U.S. states found perchlorate (a toxic component of rocket fuel) in practically every mother?s breast milk


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  • Title The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health
  • Author Randall Fitzgerald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York, New Yok
  • Date 2007-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780452288393 / 0452288398
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Library of Congress subjects Toxicology, Alternative medicine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 615.9

Media reviews

Provocative and frightening . . . excellent. (Publishers Weekly)

Exhaustively researched . . . a useful addition to your library. (Salon.com)

A frightening wake-up call . . . if Fast Food Nation made you consider some serious lifestyle changes, The Hundred-Year Lie will inspire you to go ten steps farther. (Boston Herald)

About the author

Randall Fitzgerald has been an investigative newspaper and magazine reporter and book author for over forty years. He has written investigative features for Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

His books include The Hundred Year Lie: How food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health, Lucky You!: Proven Strategies for Finding Good Fortune, and Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... And What You Can Do About It with Samuel S. Epstein.

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