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Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health Hardcover – Illustrated, April 24, 2012

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This hard-hitting expose blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could have ever imagined. Rosenberg's message is clear: the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries are tainting public health through marketing disguised as medical education and research, aggressive lobbying, and high-level conflicts of interest. If you're concerned about the safety of the drugs you take and the food you eat, you owe it to yourself to read this important book.Having gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were willing to come forward and finally tell all, reporter and editorial cartoonist Rosenberg presents us with her shocking findings. Explosive material from whistle-blowers, scientists, unsealed lawsuits, and Big Pharma's and Big Food's own marketers exposes how these industries put profits before public safety and how the government puts the interests of business before the welfare of consumers, creating a double whammy that "pimps" the public health. What Rosenberg reveals about government complicity, regulatory food- and drug-safety lapses, and legislative injustices will both shock and appall.

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"The perfect treatment for the epidemic of Common Sense Deficiency sweeping America today. Reading this will cause your eyes to pop with amazement and [your] jaw to drop with astonishment, and it might also save your sanity and your life."
-David Healy, Author of Pharmageddon and Let Them Eat Prozac

"A savage indictment of the Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex. . . . More ruthless than any drug cartel, the prescription drug industry has corrupted our political institutions, infiltrated our regulatory agencies, and bribed the medical establishment to act as dispensers of its high-priced dope, all in the obscene pursuit of mega-profits, consequences be damned. This urgent book should serve as a warning label [on] an industry that poses a grave threat to the public health."
-Jeffrey St. Clair, Author of Born under a Bad Sky and coeditor of CounterPunch

"There’s a story in this book about a pig that is so delectable, it can’t be eaten all at once. While this book may make you question eating any pig ever again, it, too, is so rich that it can’t be digested in one gulp. We all know about junk food, but what’s in Born with a Junk Food Deficiency is bound to surprise you. A wonderful weapon in the arsenal against eating muck disguised as food."
-Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

About the Author

Martha Rosenberg is a freelance writer and editorial cartoonist. She has been a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Providence Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Arizona Republic, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Consumers Digest. In addition, she is a regular health columnist on many websites including the Huffington Post, AlterNet, CounterPunch and Foodconsumer. She is also the editorial cartoonist at the Evanston Roundtable.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prometheus; Illustrated edition (April 24, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 367 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616145935
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616145934
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 1.21 x 9.26 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #315,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #228 in Sociological Study of Medicine

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Martha Rosenberg is an investigative reporter whose work has appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Consumer Reports, Public Citizen, the Center for Health Journalism at USC Annenberg, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and other top outlets.

Rosenberg's reporting has been cited by the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Public Library of Science Biology, Science Direct, the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, Britannica, National Geographic, Hastings Law Journal and Wikipedia.

Rosenberg won a Northern Illinois Newspaper Association award for work appearing in the Evanston RoundTable and her FDA expose was recommended reading for Chicago’s One Book One Chicago reading program. She has lectured at universities and medical schools.

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Dr. B

Don't fill another prescription until you have read this

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2017

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I wish this book had a more obvious name because the message is critical: big farm and big pharma are lying, and people are getting sick and dying, including our veterans. Her chapter "A Side Effect from Which there is no Recovery" hit home. I was prescribed Lyrica (pregabalin), and four years later Neurontin (gapapentin), for pain, without knowing that both drugs already had shown increased suicidal ideation in the initial studies and could damage memory and other cognitive function. These "adverse events" had been downplayed, and it has since come to light that they are not as effective at relieving pain as the promotional materials and bogus research planted in medical journals claimed. Instead, they can launch a patient into "psychological freefall," as happened in one of the cases she reports of a doctor who killed himself. The manufacturer's deceptive and aggressive marketing campaign resulted in one of the largest settlements in history against a drug company for fraud and racketeering, but the disinformation has not been retracted. If doctors can't tell the difference, what chance do patients have? I survived both suicide attempts, but not without great physical, financial, and emotional damage to myself and my family. Doctors have been courted and pushed to use medications "off label" to get around FDA standards, which are already too lax. I will never take a prescription drug, or allow a family member to do so, without researching the studies myself and any litigation history.

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Elliot Fineman

A spectacular book that exposes how we are manipulated to our great dteriment by the Food and Pharmacutical IOndustires

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2013

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In the very beginning, Martha Rosenberg, explains step by step how the pharmaceutical industry "creates a disease,” markets the symptoms to the public, works with unscrupulous doctors to confirm the need to deal with the “symptoms” and to do so by buying a new pharmaceutical medication. Readers like me will recognize every single step as we have been unwittingly exposed to these tactics numerous times in the past. Rosenberg’s take on the monopolistic takeover of our food production by the chemical companies— Monsanto as the lead villain is chilling. Imagine, Monsanto has used its money to lobby congress to forbid the FDA from recalling a Monsanto seed derived product even if it is known to cause illness and be harmful to the public. Given the way tings are going Monsanto will eventually control a major protion of our food supply. Enough is enough, and Rosenberg’s powerful message, delivered in a coherent and reader friendly style, is a message every American should hear.

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Robert A. Yoho

Martha doesn’t do this for money.

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2017

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Disclosure: I know the author.

Few commentators understand what is going on between medical care, pharma, and the FDA. Martha is one, and as a bonus she explains the big food corporations too. Between the three, it is s sad, corrupt scene, far worse than the press realizes. The doctors are completely clueless with a few exceptions. Martha did a years research for this book, and still writes 4 blogs a week. You need this information to manage your own approach to your health, and understanding these interactions is necessary to get the story.

Also recommended are books by Peter Gotzsche, David Healy and Nortin Hadler. There are others.

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Dr. Niall McLaren

Gagging on junk.

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2012

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I bought this book to see if it had anything new to say about the growing scandal of psychiatric drug misuse. It doesn't, but what it does say is put in context, so I kept reading. After a few chapters, I was becoming annoyed by the gushy, frothy prose with no attempt at objectivity but, after a few more, the sheer wealth of her information of wrong-doing had silenced any quibbles I had with her style. What she has to say is astounding, showing a vast knowledge of appalling and dangerous behavior by people who cynically manipulate the public perception of their activities while profiting from misfortune. More evidence, if any were needed, of how human greed could well be our undoing.

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E. Bleecker Liversidge

Right On!

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2012

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As a mother whose child was killed by Zyprexa, I found it difficult yet rewarding to read this book. Ms. Rosenberg is an excellent investigative journalist who reveals the sad truth here. Her stories of what is happening to our soldiers who are given the label of P.T.S.D. was particularly disheartening. Put bluntly, they, too, are being killed by prescription drugs.

Approximately 100,000 Americans die each year from the side effects of prescription drugs. If this were a war with guns, our military would be out in force. The draft might even be revived. Instead, this is a war from within, as we permit our citizens to be poisoned for the sake of profits and bottom lines.

Here's hoping thinking Americans will read this book and take precautions for themselves, because our government and health care system are failing to protect them.

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skater

Mandatory reading for every mother

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2012

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As a cancer survivor, other and Piates studio owner, I both applaud and highly recommend Martha Rosenberg's "Born with a Junk Food Deficiency". In straight, fact supported language, Ms. Rosenberg's book exposes how the practices of big pharma, agri-business and the U.S. government jeopardize the health and welfare of Americans. This book should be mandatory reading for every mother endeavoring to nourish her children and for every health professional dedicated to the best interests of her clients. Finally a book that speaks the truth, stands up to the lobbyists, and digs deeper than corporate pockets.

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Captain Jack

Changing your diet can save your life.

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020

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Everyone should, at least, peruse this highly informative and entertaining volume. Will enlighten our obese, sugar addicted brothers and sisters.

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A. M. Turner

A book that may make you consider giving up eating altogether

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2015

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All the processes that are done to the food supply: antibiotics, chemical enhancements, all the cruelties involved in meat production, plant mofifications, untested except on us human lab rats described and presented clearly.

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