#55 Metabolical Part III - Book Summary

Book Summaries by Wise Words

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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.

This week we summarised the final part of “Metabolical’ by Robert Lustig which explores the relationship between processed foods and their overwhelming consequences on our health.

In this episode, we touch on topics such as:

• The criteria for food to be considered ‘processed’
• Food adulterations
• Food subtractions
• Food additions
• Food addictions
• Food fraud
• How food fraud is tested and regulated
• Possible solutions for solving the processed food epidemic

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Next week we will be summarising ‘Functional Training and Beyond’ by Adam Sinicki so make sure you stay tuned for that.

We hope you enjoy it.
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Chapters:
00:00:00-Intro
00:00:16-Overview
00:01:18-Chapter 17 Food Classifications (7 Engineering Criteria for Processed Food)
00:11:05-The Super Nova Brazilian Health System
00:21:20-Food Adulterations
00:21:50-Toxins and Heavy Metals
00:25:03-Branched Chain Amino Acids
00:29:01-Omega 6 Fatty Acids
00:30:11-Cooking Your Goose, How Cooking Can Be Dangerous
00:33:25-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
00:35:08-Dietary Advanced Glycation
00:38:22-Chapter 19 Food Subtractions
00:38:50-Fibre One or Fibre Zero
00:40:34-What happens when we make Juice:
00:43:47-Raiding the Goodie Bag:
00:50:43-Grass and Omega-3s
00:52:33-Chapter 20 Food Additions
00:53:00-Germ Theory
00:54:24-Flavour Enhancers
00:55:06-Diacetyl
00:56:03-Potassium
00:56:26-Natural Flavours
00:57:03-Emulsifiers
00:58:50-Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT)
00:59:17-Propyl Gallate
00:59:34-Nitrates and Nitrites
00:59:54-Trans-fats
01:03:34-Chapter 21 Food Addictions
01:04:04-Fast Food Nations (Salt, Fat, Caffeine, Sugar)
01:08:27-The Addictive Qualities of Sugar
01:11:19-What’s necessary for survival
01:12:02-Sugar is a drug
01:13:44-Chapter 22 Food Fraud
01:15:29-Guilty of Passing Bad Food: The Six Examples of Food Fraud
01:15:54-Dilution/ Adulteration
01:16:11-Substitution
01:16:32-Intentional contamination/concealment
01:16:48-Country of origin
01:17:01-Organic
01:21:42-Counterfeiting
01:26:40-The Decline of the American Hive
01:28:22-Testing for Food Fraud
01:30:05-What can you, the consumer, do to protect your health and your wallet from food fraud?
01:31:08-Part 5: The US Regulating of Food
01:31:49-FDA and Food vs. Health Claims
01:36:09-Chapter 28 The Case for Real Food
01:39:07-The 7 Shopping Rules
01:41:45-The Seven proposals that could be implemented immediately
01:46:15-Debrief

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