The Crazy Makers : How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children

An unprecedented and impeccably reported look at how American food manufacturers and their "products" may be endangering our minds. With obesity becoming one of the fastest-growing worldwide epidemics, and manufactured food fueling that trend, The Crazy Makers is timelier than ever. This updated edition includes a new chapter on autism, as well as revised material that illustrates just how much the industry has changed in a few short years. Based on extensive research, epidemiological evidence, and a formal study of schoolchildren's eating habits, The Crazy Makers identifies how the latest food products may be literally driving us crazy. Carol Simontacchi offers the reader nutritional primers and recipes to help counteract the problems facing us and our children every time we sit down to eat. An unprecedented and impeccably reported look at how American food manufacturers and their products may be endangering our minds. This updated edition includes a chapter on autism, as well as revised material illustrating just how much the industry has changed in a few short years. With obesity becoming the fastest-growing worldwide epidemic, and manufactured food fueling that trend, The Crazy Makers is timelier than ever. Based on extensive research, epidemiological evidence, and a formal study of schoolchildren's eating habits, Carol Simontacchi's book identifies how the latest food products may be driving us crazy. In addition, it offers a nutritional primer and recipes to help counteract the problems we and our children face every time we sit down to eat.--COVER Argues that American food manufacturers are developing products that have a detrimental affect on human brain power and identifies a relationship between prepared foods and illness Publicly the tales of our mental lives are told in the accounts that splash across the front pages of our newspapers about school shootings or violence in the workplace.