Book Review

Fears of Frankenfood, e coli and "mad cow" meat abound. If, indeed, we are what we eat, what in the world are we becoming? Now, John Robbins, who revolutionized how we think about food, reveals the truth about our already deadly diet. Fifteen years after the publication of Diet for a New America, and 10 years after the popular PBS special about the book (September 1991), general readers are informed, curious, and articulate about diet and nutrition, and that phenomenally successful book was one of the vehicles for awakening people‘s interest in the direct connection between what they eat and their health.

Now, at this time in our culture‘s history, people in the general population are fairly sophisticated in their knowledge of quite a wide range of issues related to diet: the importance of a low-fat diet, the relative importance of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables in daily eating, the connections between certain foods and certain health issues, particularly heart disease and cancer, the dark side of the agricultural business, particularly the beef and chicken industries, and the questions raised by scientific breakthroughs in genetically engineered foods.

This sequel to Diet for a New America speaks to a nation that is much more savvy about food and health issues than it was in the 1980‘s and presents the tremendously compelling new information that has come out of research in the fields of nutrition, medicine, and agriculture, bringing the reader in on what we now know about relation-ships between diet and longevity, aging, and robust health. Armed with powerful statistics, fascinating dis-cussions, and exposes of false information and its proponents, the author argues for people adopting a vegetarian diet for their own well-being as well as that of the planet. Politically charged, the book is unquestionably convincing in its advocacy of a lifestyle that is not only personally beneficial but of critical importance to the world at large. This is a book of health and hope, and it unabashedly makes a pitch for a better world through better eating.

"Carefully researched, eminently readable, and starkly accurate, The Food Revolution will change your life. If every patient in every doctor's office read this book, it would revolutionize the health of America."
~Neal Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

"John Robbins has done it again! Another brilliant, mind-altering, paradigm-shifting, lifestyle-changing, heart-expanding book from the most powerfully sane man I know. The Food Revolution will change your life and the lives of those you love. Thoughtful, penetrating, impeccably researched, it will make you laugh, then cry, then pass it on to your loved ones."
~Marianne Williamson, author of A Return of Love

"John Robbins is the leading voice in the world for restoring humanity to its proper relationship with food, the Earth, and health. Read The Food Revolution and get active."
~Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism

"With regard to our health and the health of our planet, The Food Revolution could be the most important book ever written."
~Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God

John Robbins is the author of numerous bestsellers, including Diet for a New America. He serves as a director of many nonprofit organizations concerned with the environment, health, world hunger, genetic engineering, and the welfare of all species. A popular speaker, founder of EarthSave International, and chairman of Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!), he lives with his family in California.