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

by David Steinman (Author) "IT SEEMS LIKE we've heard nothing but bad news about foods for the past few years..." (more)
Key Phrases: pesticide saturation, safe shopping list, different pesticide formulations, United States, New York, Total Diet Study (more...)

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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.

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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Product Details Paperback: 640 pages Publisher: Running Press; 1 edition (December 28, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1560259221 ISBN-13: 978-1560259220 Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #63,516 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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pesticide saturation, safe shopping list, different pesticide formulations, industrial chemical formulations, mercury accumulator, industrial chemical residues, market basket samples, chemically grown grains, green light foods, environmental metabolites, fewer pesticide residues, yellow light foods, industrial chemical factories, cesium levels, detectable pesticide residues, pesticide saturated, red light foods, wild crop, plain milk chocolate, toxic invaders, detected pesticides, raisin growers, neurotoxic pesticides, possible human carcinogen, excess cancers

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United States, New York, Total Diet Study, Personal Action Guide, Los Angeles, Department of Agriculture, New Jersey, Great Lakes, North Carolina, San Francisco, New Zealand, National Academy of Sciences, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Cascadian Farm, Crystal Light Sunrise Classic Orange, Italy Contact, New Hampshire, World War, Arrowhead Mills, Environmental Protection Agency, Hong Kong, Long Island, New England, New Orleans

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This book cites 29 books:

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson on 4 pages
• Diet for a Poisoned Planet by David Steinman in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
• Food Safety Evaluation (Oxford Workshop) by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
• When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Lee Davis in Front Matter, and Back Matter
• Breast Cancer by Bruce G. Haffty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Running Press; 1 edition (December 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560259221
• ISBN-13: 978-1560259220
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #63,516 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Story Ever Told!, December 28, 2006

By	mermaid mum (Malibu, California) - See all my reviews

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!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable resource for eating healthfully!, January 5, 2007

By	Stacey Kelman (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Diet for a Poisoned Planet, June 27, 2007

By	Rebecca Henderson (Georgia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Very interesting book. Documented on USDA reports. Makes me afraid to eat anything commercial, however. It is also very revealing about how slack our government is in regulating the amount of poisons on our produce. We need to demand organic products. They are available, albeit more expensive. But the more demand, the lower the price. Right?