Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health

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of the largest settlements in history against a drug company for fraud and racketeering, but the disinformation has not been retracted.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.

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.

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

Martha Rosenberg is a first-rate investigative journalist. In this book she takes on abuses by Big Pharma and Agribusiness. Her caustic prose is driven by a passionate love of animals, and a loathing for those who make money from their pain.Bob WilburMay,2015

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.

Excellant book

I highly recommend this book. .

easy to read