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Our culture is designed to get you to eat crappy food, be sedentary, and drown your sorrows with consumption.
Howard Jacobson • Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
The reporting
Michael Moss • Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
On September 12, 2013, I reported Avomeen’s results in an article titled “How Chris McCandless Died,” which was published on The New Yorker website.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Nestlé’s hard-nosed lobbying of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—which regulates bottled water as a food product—to allow water drawn from a borehole to be labeled spring. It isn’t honest, Mascha thinks, and it devalues water that actually is collected from springs.
Elizabeth Royte • Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water
others came from the same restaurant and the same cook who used the same ingredients to make different degrading dishes for us all.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful
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“If you are deficient in these essential vegetable oils, you cannot possibly be healthy,” the propaganda began to spread like wildfire, to the tune of billions in profits, no doubt with the help of the prodigal propagandist Edward Bernays,7 a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who worked with companies like Procter & Gamble during this time, and who is also
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