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The betrayal of health : the impact of nutrition, environment, and lifestyle on illness in America
- Title
- The betrayal of health : the impact of nutrition, environment, and lifestyle on illness in America / Joseph D. Beasley.
- Author
- Beasley, Joseph D.
- Publication
- New York : Times Books, ©1991.
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Details
- Description
- x, 274 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Analyzes America's social and health-care problems. Offers evidence that our bad nutrition, reliance on stimulants, drug and alcohol abuse, and ruined air and water not only have undermined personal health but also have contributed to the destruction of the social fabric; and that, having rendered ourselves toxic and malnourished, we have witnessed not only high infant mortality rates but illiteracy, learning disabilities, and other persistent diseases and syndromes. Discusses the link between sickness and society, between chronic disease and social disorder. Proposes a model for a new bio-behavioral approach to our medical and social ills, and presents the reader with information and tools to effect change on a personal and national level.
- Subject
- Since 1980
- Social medicine > United States
- Medical care > United States
- Chronic diseases
- Lifestyles
- Nutrition disorders
- Social medicine
- Social problems
- Chronic Disease
- Environmental Exposure
- Life Style
- Nutrition Disorders
- Social Medicine
- Social Problems
- social issues
- Medical care
- Social conditions
- Social medicine
- Gesundheit
- Sozioökonomisches System
- Lebensführung
- Ernährung
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-259) and index.
- Contents
- The genetic foundation of health -- The web of nutrition -- Deadly diet : nutrition and disease -- The industrialization of food -- Our toxic world -- Ecological illness and the individual -- We are how we live -- The next generation -- The limits of modern medicine -- A new paradigm for medical care -- What we can do.
- ISBN
- 0812918975
- 9780812918977
- LCCN
- 90071448
- OCLC
- ocm23220168
- 23220168
- SCSB-14655710
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library