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

March 31st, 2008 Posted in Paperback

Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1585426261
Manufacturer: Tarcher
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We already worry that our food makes us fat, dull, disease-prone, and sleepy. Now we have to worry that it also makes us crazy. According to certified clinical nutritionist Carol Simontacchi, the food industries that give us packaged, processed, artificially flavored, chemical-ridden, artificially colored, nutrient-stripped pseudo foods such as sodas, processed soups, sugared cereals, and fiberless bread “wantonly destroy our bodies and our brains, all in the name of profit.” We Americans (adults and children) eat 200 pounds of sugar and artificial sweeteners each year. Our children’s test scores and grades drop. We become violent, illogical, moody, depressed, drug-addicted, and crazy. The reason, according to the author, who is pursuing a doctorate in brain nutrition, is that we’re starving our brains with lack of nutrition.

This isn’t a process that begins when teenagers start snacking on sodas, chips, and ice cream. Rather, this nutrition deprivation starts in the womb: mom doesn’t get the right nutrition (essential fatty acids, high-quality protein, unrefined carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and water), so baby is born already brain-nutrient deficient, says the author. Infant formulas, processed baby food, and sugared cereals exacerbate the problem through the stages of childhood, with kids not getting the nutrition their growing brains need. Simontacchi also skewers prepared foods, additives, over-processed grains, school vending machines, and fast-food chains.

This book isn’t only about children. Starbucks and its ilk get a “Crazy Maker Award” for “encouraging us to self-medicate with stimulating beverages that mask the symptoms of nervous system and adrenal exhaustion.” We adults are genuinely fatigued, but instead of getting the sleep and rest we need, we succumb to the “marketing hype of sophisticated companies that convinces us that self-medicating with an addictive substance is the answer to our energy crisis.” You may not accept all Simontacchi’s views, but once you’ve read this book, you won’t reach for a café latte or feed your kids sugar-frosted cereal with the same complacency. –Joan Price

Book Description:
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.

Customer Reviews

The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children by Charles Bonham
VERY WORTHWHILE READING. TIMES HAVE CHANGED AND THIS BOOK INFORMES ABOUT THE CORPORATE DIET BEING PROFFERED TO THE PUBLIC! :>(

crazy for healthy food by Michael B. Sprague
I love this book is parent friendly, shocking, witty & deep analysis of many dangers of most packaged & agri biz food. Its similar to “The (synthetic) 100 year Lie” documenting how our food supplies are toxic causing many ills blamed on other things: germs, bad weather, genes/DNA, etc. Her focus on ‘How the food industry is destroying our Brains & Harming our Children” she backs up with vast tragic humor about hospital & school foods sickening people & causing hyperactivity, anxious & dull kids. NO wonder our schools are the worst in civilized world, similar to our birthing health rates of infant death & PPD. So many ills are caused by popular toxic foods, we must be addicted to them, like the drugs millions take to fix the damage by toxic foods. i was addicted to junk foods for 25 years, which caused me dozens of infections, surgery & dental disasters from 16 years on.

So do you want to be healthy, preventing & healing ills? If so, this will help shock us awake to reality of how chemo food industry is trashing our health. I believe its causing numbing, ignorace, bad habits for good taste, even birth-defects & worse, cancer? But its very positive also. I reversed my junky food addictions after 27 years naturalizing my health.

We know alcohol & drugs cause birth defects. Like Dr. Weston Price DD discovered in 1930s, documented in his revolutionary book “NUTRITION & PHYSICAL DEGENERATION”

Carol is lucid & personal writer, giving naturally healthy recipes, but glosses over organic foods, she admits are more nutritious & healthy. She’s very encouraging while explaining childrens growth stages, problems & health needs. Its great for health food beginners in natural family foods movement growing since 1970s, as the chemical medical & food industries are growing toxicly fast. We always choose how healthy to eat & live ????

“In the Top Ten of my All-Time Favorite books” by Pamela Gerry
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Excellent book on nutrition in today’s world. by Stephen J. Sutton
The book describes the essentials to providing excellent nutrition for babies, children and teens specifically when it comes to brain development and health. It details the dangers of allowing the food industry to decide what your kids should eat. If you want your kids or future kids to thrive and succeed in life, this is book hits the importance of doing it right from the start.

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