It goes into cellular biology and how cells use energy and how our food should provide for bodily processes which need that energy. Lustig explains how Real Food nourishes us and how processed food doesn't. The book then goes on to explain how processed food is made and how different it is from real food. There are sections explaining how sugars and other poisons (corn syrup, nitrates, trans fats, etc.) affect our body, giving us diabetes, heart conditions, liver cancer, dementia and other mental health problems.
The last part of the book discusses the Food Industry and compares it with the tobacco and alcohol industries. The effects of processed food on our bodies are indeed comparable to the effects of those controlled substances. Sugar is an addictive substance and is everywhere in everything processed. There is also a section on governments and how complicit they are. There is a strong relationship between both - food industry and governments - which isn't necessarily ethical but is financially beneficial for them.
It seems that the food industry keeps feeding us sugar because it will make us eat more and they will profit from it. Big pharma also make big profit as all these chronic metabolic diseases mean we will need medication possibly for life. These medicines only treat the symptoms but do not cure the diseases. The only cure (and prevention) as Dr Lustig says is: Eat Real Food!
Science and medicine have been blind to this for years, as Big Food and Big Pharma's interference funding research has distorted the truth. Big pharma has also interfered with medical education enforcing teaching paradigms which benefit their use of prescriptions.
An excellent read for anyone who is interested in the food industry, health, and particularly Real Food.
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