Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet – One Bite at a Time

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Like I said, it’s a sobering, challenging, confronting read. It’s also, ultimately, a hopeful read as Mark gives us some compelling Ideas on how we can go about SOLVING the crises along with a cast of heroic characters who are doing the hard work to serve us and change the world. The author also have a PODCAST called Doctor's Farmacy where he dives deep into the topics and share his insights with us. Another callout is for schools to begin teaching kids how to garden and cook as part of the curriculum. We have raised a generation of kids who do not understand how food is grown or cooked. I fully support that cooking classes and having a school garden be in the curriculum.

I was already familiar with the fact that our agriculture strategies were not ideal and that they were a large contributor to the emissions, but at the same time I'm aware that globally people are looking for innovations to improve that, so I didn't perceive it in such a dramatic way. Food Fix is a manifesto against America's current food system. Dr. Mark Hyman has written several books on nutrition and a leader in the field of integrative medicine, an up-and-coming field that focuses on the whole patient and their environment. Food is our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies. Finally, the author's callout of the treatment of farm workers and food workers is an excellent callout we should always remember whenever we buy food or eat food prepared by someone else. Doing so is not only upholding the dignity of the individuals who grow, cook, and serve our food, but it lays bare the need for environmental justice measures. We cannot wait to prioritize the planet, specifically with environmentally sustainable farming measures. Food is the nexus of most of our world’s health, economic, environmental, climate, social, and even political crises. While this may seem like an exaggeration, it is not. The problem is much worse than we think. After reading Food Fix you will be able to connect the dots of this largely invisible crisis and understand why fixing our food system is central to the health and well-being of our population, our environment, our climate, our economy, and our very survival as a species. You will also understand the forces, businesses, and policies driving the catastrophe, and the people, businesses, and governments that are providing hope and a path to fixing our dysfunctional food system.”There were still some great callouts in this book (again, needing better studies and facts to make the conclusions he draws):

And then finally there is climate change. Agriculture creates more carbon emissions than all of transportation according to this book. Carbon is released from the soils when it is tilled. Methane comes from cattle and landfills full of food waste. And Nitrogen dioxide comes from fertilizers that are used to boost crops. Getting a handle on global warming will also require dealing with the huge agriculture industry. Handling fossil fuels is just a part of it.I started off extremely excited to dive into this book. Based on the summary, I was sure I would appreciate and agree with everything written. Unfortunately, the author makes leaps in his conclusions and engages in reductive thinking. There were facts that weren’t cited, but part of proving an argument, and I struggled to understand where they even came from. Some of the policy proposals are entirely classist, even if well intended. For example: It took me some great amount of days to read the book as I was involved in it on a deeper level. But it made me stop reading this for a while but soon I realised how should I approach the book( Like just get the data and try not to have a biased thought) which helped me to finish it and I am glad that I could. Because it was one of the costliest book I bought.(Rs700), but as the author says the real price of product is not what is written on it.