The Dorito Effect

Mark Schatzker, Chris Patton

eAudio - 2015

In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs. Instead, we have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor - the tastes we crave - and the underlying nutrition. Since the late 1940s, we have been slowly leeching flavor out of the food we grow. Simultaneously, we have taken great leaps forward in technology, allowing us to produce in the lab the very flavors that are being lost on the farm. Thanks to this largely invisible epidemic, seemingly healthy food is becoming more like junk food: highly craveable but nutritionally empty. We have unk...nowingly interfered with an ancient chemical language - flavor - that evolved to guide our nutrition, not destroy it.

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Subjects
Published
Dreamscape Media
Language
English
Main Authors
Mark Schatzker, Chris Patton
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size239 GB
Parts7
ISBN9781666590197
Release Date5/5/2015
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size239 GB
ISBN9781666590197
Release Date5/5/2015