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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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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

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