1-Sentence-Summary: Fast Food Nation describes how the fast food industry has reduced the overall food quality worldwide, created poor working conditions for millions of people and ruined public health.
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Category: Nutrition
Grain Brain Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: Grain Brain takes a look at the impact carbohydrates have on the structure and development of your brain, arriving at the conclusion that a diet high in fat, low in carbs and especially sugar, combined with fasting, lots of activity and more sleep could provide you with a much higher quality of life.
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In Defense Of Food Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: In Defense Of Food describes the decline of natural eating in exchange for diets driven by science and nutritional data, how this decline has ruined our health, and what we can do to return to food as a simple, cultural, natural aspect of life.
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Eat, Move, Sleep Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: Eat, Move, Sleep shows you that living a long and healthy life is not the result of massive lifestyle changes, but of lots of small habits, which improve the way you sleep, eat and exercise and, if combined, add a whole lot to your health.
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The Blue Zones Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: The Blue Zones gives you advice on how to live to be 100 years and older by looking at five spots across the planet, where people live the longest, and drawing lessons about what they eat, drink, how they exercise and which habits most shape their lives.
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The China Study Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: The China Study examines the effect of animal protein intake on cancer risk and suggests improving your health by focusing on a plant-based diet.
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The Power Of Full Engagement Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: The Power Of Full Engagement will show you how to manage the only thing worth managing โ your energy โ by teaching you how to properly maintain the four kinds of energy, accept your limitations, and live a life of purpose.
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: The Omnivore’s Dilemma explains the range of food choices we face today using four meals on a spectrum from highly processed to entirely self-gathered, thus teaching us how the industrial revolution changed the way we eat, why organic food isn’t necessarily better, what truly natural food looks like, and which options we have in making the tradeoff between fast, delicious, cheap, ethical, sustainable, and environmentally friendly meals.
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Salt Sugar Fat Summary
1-Sentence-Summary: Salt Sugar Fat takes you through the history of the demise of home-cooked meals by explaining why you love salt, sugar and fat so much and how the processed food industry managed to hook us by cramming all 3 of those into their products.
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