Summary: - How 72% of what many of us eat wasn’t eaten for 99.8% of our evolutionary history - How much of what we eat today isn’t food, but rather, edible products - How 83.5% of beef, 80% of soybeans, 58% of corn seed, and 55% of flour are produced by the top four firms in those industries - How a single company supplies the seeds for 90% of the genetically modified corn and soybeans - How we have to ask if we’re getting our nutrition information from sources motivated by profit vs. science - How the “calorie is a calorie” myth is extremely profitable for big business - How SANE eating becomes easier and easier over time as your tastes will change and you will start to crave SANE food and dislike inSANE food - How 64% of the members of national committees on nutrition and food receive compensation from food companies - How at least 530 government scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s preeminent agency for medical research, have taken fees, stock or stock options from biomedical companies in the last five years - How the food industry and our government are paid to keep profits high, not to teach us about nutritional science - How it’s hard to get someone to believe one thing when they are paid to believe another - How staying slim is simple, but not easy - How staying slim is only complex when we continue to eat inSANE starches and sweets - How to easily identify SANE slimming foods at the grocery store - A shocking story that illustrates how little big food companies care about our wellbeing - How we should be as careful about what we eat as we are about the prescriptions we take - How inSANE foods are the most profitable “products” for big food companies - How at the turn of the millennium, the average American ate over 150 pounds of sweeteners per year - How the average American is eating a little under a half-pound of added sweeteners per day - How any caloric sweetener is horrible for you…even if it’s “all natural” or “organic” - How we do *not* have to give up sweeteners, just caloric sweeteners - How we can enjoy natural non-caloric sweeteners such as stevia or luo han guo - How the SANEr you get, the sweeter things taste - How going SANE and clearing our hormonal clog helps to curb cravings because our body can “feed itself” with our stored body fat - How over two billion people worldwide eat intentionally and how we can to
