Four Books that Will CHange the Way You Look at Food

Turn on your television, the internet, or pick up a magazine or a news paper and you are sure to find something about either nutrition, health, obesity, or the environment. You can't miss these topics because they are in your face everywhere yet our society is fast killing itself with low quality food and bad nutritional practices, not to mention the impact our bad agriculture practices are having on our planet. If you are a person who is interested in learning more about the impact of our diets and agriculture are having on all of us I would like to suggest four books that will forever change the way you look at food. These books come from four very different points of view and all have things in common as well as being very different. These books have one common thread; people who have thought about our health, our food, and our environment and have been impacted greatly by what they learned write them. You will learn from them too, I promise.

The first book that will change the way you look at food is a mainstream best seller. The book is Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book-Fast Food and the Supersizing of America. You may have seen Spurlock's movie on the shelves at your local video store; Super Size Me that is the inspiration for Don't Eat this Book. The book chronicles in detail the adventure of Mr. Spurlock's thirty-day diet of nothing but Mc Donald's food. Not only will you learn the toll this diet took on Morgan but you will also hear many scary and alarming facts about the bad agricultural practices used in growing some of the foods served at Mc Donald's. One of the scariest foods I found out about was a breed of Genetically modified potatoes that contain pesticides in their genetic make up. I personally would not want to sit down and feed my family a meal of pesticide but it happens all the time when we choose to eat the mystery foods that fast food companies serve up. You will also look into many other companies and even into the dangers of the school cafeteria. This book is entertaining, educational and interesting for those who eat the mainstream American diet of convenience and fast foods.