Food Processing and Insulin Resistance (Topics In Health Book 11)

Thousands of years of scientific development has brought us incredible advances in all kinds of technology, affecting all aspects of our lives and civilization. Food is certainly not an aspect that has gone untouched, and it is needless to say that some incredible benefits have come from these events, including ending starvation for millions.

Despite these advances, there is only an extremely small amount of the developed worlds food which in any way resembles 'real' food that we would recognize as something we could come across in the wild; all of our food is heavily processed. Along with it's sister book discussing the impact of chemical additives and processes that lead to various types of toxicity, this text investigates and discusses the effects processed foods have on our insulin sensitivity/resistance, and thereby how our processed foods are making us fat!