The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health [平装] 0452288398

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 ourfood, water, medicine, and environment are making humans the most polluted species on theplanet. A century ago in 1906, when Congress enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act, Americanswere promised "better living through chemistry." Fitzgerald provides overwhelming evidence toshatter this myth, and many others perpetrated by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and processedfoods industries. In the face of this national health crisis, Fitzgerald also presents informed andpractical 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 componentof rocket fuel) in practically every mother?s breast milk A frightening wake-up call . . . if Fast Food Nation made you consider someserious lifestyle changes, The Hundred-Year Lie will inspire you to go ten steps farther. -- Boston Herald Exhaustively researched . . . a useful addition to your library. -- Salon.com Provocative and frightening . . . excellent. -- Publishers WeeklyRANDALL FITZGERALD has written investigative features for The WashingtonPost and The Wall Street Journal, and for twenty years was a contributing editor forReader?s Digest, where he researched, wrote, and edited articles on science andmedicine.

出版社	Plume
作者	Randall Fitzgerald