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Diet for a Poisoned Planet: How to Choose Safe Foods for You and Your Family - The Twenty-first Century Edition

Diet for a Poisoned Planet: How to Choose Safe Foods for You and Your Family - The Twenty-first Century Edition
By David Steinman

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David Steinman, founder of the Green Patriot movement, is an acclaimed author, environmentalist and health consumer advocate.

Steinman has testified before Congress as an expert witness on the levels of chemical contaminants in the blood of persons eating locally caught fish from Southern California bays. It was his landmark study, published in the Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, that led to the historic movement to clean up the Santa Monica Bay.
Steinman is an advisory board member for The Green Guide Institute, a national non-profit organization for consumer research and information.
He has won awards for his reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Sierra Club, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Like Silent Spring, Diet for a Poisoned Planet took on an entire industry and went onto become a classic work of environmental writing. Now reissued in a new millennium edition, the work's in-depth look at the contaminants in individual food items is updated with the latest Total Diet Study findings. A motivating book, Diet for a Poisoned Planet changes people viscerally. Steinman tells his own story of fishing in the Santa Monica Bay as a child and how he went on to testify before Congress as an expert witness on the contamination of his own body by the fish he ate. The book is written by a true expert who has been a member of a National Academy of Sciences committee to advise Congress on seafood safety legislation.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #103250 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-12-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 640 pages

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About the Author

In addition to being one of America's foremost environmental authors and consumer advocates, David Steinman is publisher and founder of The Freedom Press, which publishes Healthy Living, one of the nation's leading health magazines, in additional to many trade books. He has advised Congress on health issues, and his work has been widely featured, syndicated, cited and reviewed in major news magazines and newspapers, and he's been a frequent guest on many regional and national TV and radio programs.

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The Greatest Story Ever Told!5
I bought this book in the early 1990's and it changed my life. It was the most informative book I have ever read (and I read them all!) on the subject of a healthy diet and what goes into (and onto) the food we eat. I carried this book around as my food "bible" for years and years and was thankful every day that Mr. Steinman did thousands of hours of research to help make my life healthier and happier by testing the foods we all eat for toxic residues and other toxic substances and publishing the results. This book is for EVERYONE. Every person on this planet should read this book and use it to help them make their food choices.

A few years back I was wondering if some of the material in the book wasn't outdated, especially with the boom in organic food available now (thank goodness) and wished Mr. Steinman would update the book. My copy is old and tatered but I still refered to it all the time. Low and behold, it's here! An updated version! Long awaited, I pre-ordered it on Amazon and it arrived yesterday and I've already read most of it. It is just as great as the old version and I feel better that the information is now more current, espeically since I have two small children to feed, and the current information is invaluable. PLEASE, read this book. Do it for yourself, your health, your kids, YOUR WHOLE FAMILY. The information is will change your life for the better.

I grew up in Pacific Palisades, near the Santa Monica Bay where Mr. Steinman's story begins, so I truly understand his reason for writing this book (I remember the signs posted on the Santa Monica Pier too warning not to eat the fish caught! AWFUL!) and wanting and NEEDING to know the truth about what goes into our precious food. If people trust our government to keep our food healthy you are fools. Take matters into your own hands. Buy this book.

By the way, I just read some disturbing reviews that insinuated that this book has something to do with Scientology. I've read this book cover to cover for over a decade and can't figure out how some people come up with these sort of strange ideas. Very worrying....

Thank you Mr. Steinman for taking care of me and my family! Truly!

An invaluable resource for eating healthfully!5
I am a big fan of the author and first discovered "Diet for a Poisoned Planet" when the first edition was published in 1990. I just read David Steinman's latest book "Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth From the Global Warming Meltdown" and this is an excellent companion.

I am quite suspicious that two of the reviews below seems to be from the California Advisory Board's counter PR campaign to the first edition. However, as a result of the information in this book, many raisin companies reduced or eliminated the spraying of DDT on raisins! Here are some references on this PR campaign:

"Flying the Koop: A Surgeon General's Reputation On the Line." PR Watch, Volume 5, No. 4, 4th quarter 1998.
Stauber J. & Rampton S. Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry, Common Courage Press (1995), pp 6-10, 184-5.
Sheldon Rampton. "Ketchum (the UN's PR Firm) Tackles Corporate Responsibility." PR Watch, Volume 8, No. 4, 4th quarter 2001.

A survival guide for the 21st century5
It took humanity 200.000 years to understand the link between contaminated drinking water and sickness. Louis Pasteur provided us with this breakthrough. At this time, science was still founded on sound humanistic principles and stimulated an open debate. Truth was more important then than money, and money was well spent. Thanks to gigantic investments everybody in the US receives drinking water at home. Life expectancy increased a staggering 50 % due to this. Pure drinking water is and remains the single most important scientific discovery in human history.
From 1940 onwards, the petrochemical industry began producing DDT and other carcinogenic pesticides. In the same way that contaminated water makes us sick, a poisoned planet produces sick people. Cancer is the new name of this epidemic. President Nixon declared the War on Cancer in 1971, but to no avail. Nowadays, a man has 44 % chance of getting cancer, whereas for women this is 38 %. This is an increase with 24 % with respect to the year 1973. Within the current political system the big corporations producing carcinogenic products are not blamed at all. You are being blamed, with your "unhealthy lifestyle". But then again, we are not being informed. Dr. Samuel Epstein sees it as follows : "Consumer product legislation is well overdue. All foods grown with the application of carcinogenic pesticides should be clearly labeled with a cancer warning, the name of each carcinogenic pesticide, and the concentrations of its residues". Maybe this will be accomplished in the 22nd century. Let's hope so.
In the meantime, we people living in the 21st century are on our own. Governments don't care about us. Nobody will think in our place. Diet for a poisoned planet is a survival guide for people who don't want to die from the 21st century. You will probably find organic foods less expensive after reading this book. Who is on a budget will receive tips on what eventually can be bought in a normal supermarket, and what should absolutely be avoided. It is important to highlight that also baby food is examined. The great news is that it is even possible to detoxify your body. Mr. Steinman is a living proof that high levels of DDT and PCB in your body can be expulsed. He has done it changing his diet and undergoing a vitamin therapy. This book is highly recommended. Five stars !