Politically Incorrect Nutrition: What You May Not Know about Your Food and Drink [Paperback]

Michael Barbee (Author)

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Review

A brilliant expose....a must read for anyone seeking better health in a climate of deception and dishonesty. -- Ted Spence, DDS, ND

Current, cutting edge, and very much on target. This is a book I can highly recommend. -- Ann Louise Gittleman, The Fat Flush Plan

Read this book and you won't be a victim any longer. -- Donna Gates, MEd, The Body Ecology Diet

About the Author

Michael Barbee, CDC, is an educator who has taught in private and public schools for 30 years. While specializing in the field of health and nutrition, he became a Certified Diet Counselor through study at the Institute for Educational Therapy (IET) in Cotati, California. In addition to his teaching, Mr. Barbee enjoys speaking to groups concerned with the relationship of diet to health and disease.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Vital Health Publishing (July 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890612340
• ISBN-13: 978-1890612344
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,067 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!, November 15, 2004

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C. Wong "www.organicfamilymagazine.com" (Connecticut, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Politically Incorrect Nutrition: What You May Not Know about Your Food and Drink (Paperback)

It seems like so much of the information we internalize is gathered from news snippets and commercials. We hear things like: eggs are bad; drink lots of milk and green tea. The problem is that we are not sure why these things are true. How many of us hear the snippet and then spend the time reading all the opposing scientific papers to determine why the statement was made so we can make informed decisions about making a change in our diet? Michael Barbee has done the research for us in his book Politically Incorrect Nutrition: Finding Reality in the Mire of Food Industry Propaganda.

The book covers a variety of nutritional topics and challenges conventional thinking citing historical sources as to why we believe certain things. For example, the conventional thinking on eating eggs is that we shouldn't eat too many as they are high in fat and cholesterol or that we should throw out the yolk and only eat the white. The author takes us through the history of why eggs were originally found to be unhealthy-a study conducted on dried egg yolk powder, not whole, fresh, organic, free-range chicken eggs. Since 1945 egg consumption has dropped by almost 50%, yet there has not been a subsequent drop in heart disease. The author says that eggs are nutrient dense and that "eggs have the best nutrient package of any food we can eat." He ties in the politics of cholesterol paranoia by making the connection with greedy corporate America. The emphasis placed on cholesterol being bad is misguided and has led the drug companies to earn mega-bucks by selling cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) to unsuspecting citizens.

Assumptions made about eggs are just one topic covered in this book. There are also chapters on green tea, soy, cholesterol, conjugated linoleic acid, fluoridation, aspartame, osteoporosis, bovine growth hormone, plastics and microwaves, vitamin C, food irradiation, and vegetarianism. The book concludes with a chapter on whether or not there is indeed a perfect "best diet" for everybody.

If you are like me, you are constantly questioning conventional thinking. Politically Incorrect Nutrition questions our conventional thinking on foods. But don't take my word for it, read the book and find out!

C.J. Wong, M.S.(Biology), M.S. (Lib. Info. Sci.)
Editor, Organic Family Magazine

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remove the scales from your eyes., October 23, 2004

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Alan D. Graham (Ozark, Al USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Politically Incorrect Nutrition: What You May Not Know about Your Food and Drink (Paperback)

"Politically Incorrect Nutrition" is an important and potentially life saving contribution by Michael Barbee. After many years of continuous research as a holistic nutritional advisor I sometimes think I've heard it all with regard to nutritional chicanery. But then along comes 'Politically Incorrect Nutrition' to remind me I've yet, remotely, to hear it all, and that more always remains to be heard.

If you need to feel that your government representatives and captains of industry are concerned about our well-being, then you might not want to read this book. If you are; however, not afraid of the truth and would like to take control of your life and your education, then 'Politically Incorrect Nutrition' is an imperative. Buy now and begin your awakening.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Untold Nutritional Truth Behind the Media Myths, September 6, 2004

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Healthy Mother (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Politically Incorrect Nutrition: What You May Not Know about Your Food and Drink (Paperback)

I've been sharing this book with all of my friends! I am now solidly conscious of the food and drink choices I make for myself and my family, in a way I wasn't before I read this book. Barbee's book is written to educate average people who suspect the media may be misleading us with nutrition myths, but who don't have time to research the truth.

I'm so glad to see a book that has so much common sense and reports the actual findings of studies that are thrown around by the media for less than altruistic reasons. I have been a health advocate and teacher for years, but this book really drove home the importance of avoiding toxins like chlorine and fluoride and DDT that I let slip in when I'm having tea with someone or eating out or shopping a bit cheaper!

One of my friends, a very well educated herbalist, told me that the cholesterol chapter was the best she had come across in explaining the role of cholesterol in health to a lay person. The book is very clear and very thorough and well researched.

Thank you, Mr. Barbee. If you don't know about his website where you can ask him questions go to www.foodintegrity dot com.