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The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days! Hardcover – 30 April 2015

by Vani Hari (Author), Dr. Mark Hyman (Introduction)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,873 ratings
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    384 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Little, Brown US
  4. Publication date
    30 April 2015
  5. Dimensions
    16.19 x 2.86 x 24.45 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0316376469
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0316376464
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Cut hidden food toxins, lose weight, and get healthy in just 21 days.

Did you know that your fast food fries contain a chemical used in Silly Putty? Or that a juicy peach sprayed heavily with pesticides could be triggering your body to store fat? When we go to the supermarket, we trust that all our groceries are safe to eat. But much of what we're putting into our bodies is either tainted with chemicals or processed in a way that makes us gain weight, feel sick, and age before our time.

Luckily, Vani Hari - aka the Food Babe - has got your back. A food activist who has courageously put the heat on big food companies to disclose ingredients and remove toxic additives from their products, Hari has made it her life's mission to educate the world about how to live a clean, organic, healthy lifestyle in an overprocessed, contaminated-food world, and how to look and feel fabulous while doing it.

In THE FOOD BABE WAY, Hari invites you to follow an easy and accessible plan to rid your body of toxins, lose weight withoutcounting calories, and restore your natural glow in just 21 days. Including anecdotes of her own transformation along with easy-to-follow shopping lists, meal plans, and mouthwatering recipes, THE FOOD BABE WAY will empower you to change your food, change your body, and change the world.

"Read this book and you will never think about food, your health, or the world in the same way again. And we will all be better off for it." From the foreword by Mark Hyman, MD, author of "The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet"

Vani Hari is a food activist and the creator of foodbabe.com. In her work, Hari has influenced how food giants like Kraft, Subway, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, and Starbucks create their products, steering them toward more healthful policies. She lives in North Carolina and travels around the world to speak about health and food awareness.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown US; 1st edition (30 April 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316376469
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316376464
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.19 x 2.86 x 24.45 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,873 ratings

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Vani Hari

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Vani Hari started FoodBabe.com in April 2011 to spread information about what is really in the American food supply. She teaches people how to make the right purchasing decisions at the grocery store, how to live an organic lifestyle, and how to travel healthfully around the world. The success in her writing and investigative work can be seen in the way food companies react to her uncanny ability to find and expose the truth.

Impassioned by knowing how food affects health, Vani loves sharing her message on the blogosphere to 3 million unique readers across the globe. Vani convinced the biggest fast food chain in the world, Subway, to remove a controversial ingredient after receiving 50,000 signatures in 24 hours on her petition to the chain. After receiving tremendous attention on her posts about Chick-Fil-A, she was invited by the company’s leadership to meet at its headquarters to consult on specific improvements to ingredients used by the national chain, which they later implemented. 7 months after Vani petitioned Kraft to remove harmful petroleum-based artificial food dyes from Mac & Cheese, Kraft responded by removing the dye from all products aimed at children.

Other major food companies that have responded to her writings include Panera Bread, Whole Foods, Lean Cuisine, McDonalds, General Mills, Taco Bell, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Chipotle, Yoforia, and Moe’s South West Grill.

Vani’s activism brought national attention at the Democratic National Convention when she used her status as an elected delegate to protest in front of the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on the issue of GMO labeling. Vani has been profiled in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Good Morning America, The Doctors Show, NBC News, Fox News and is a regular cooking contributor on NBC’s Charlotte Today and food expert on CNN.

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Sarah Dresner
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a book which achieves its aim of exposing ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2015
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This is a book which achieves its aim of exposing the hidden ingredients in what we eat. The author does not profess to be a scientist BUT she is a brave and motivated campaigner to improve not only eating habits, but persuade the big brands to ensure at the very least ingredients are transparent, if not improved. Interesting and motivating.
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spencer smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2015
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Its an eye opener, educational
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SianE
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 2016
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Great book!
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Shay G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Read Beyond the Negative Reviews
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2015
When you are exposing the appalling actions of multi-billion-dollar food corporations you can expect attempts to discredit the author. So we see with many of the reviews here in my opinion. I have no alliance to the food industry or the author, so my simple and unscientific approach to this is fairly representative of most ordinary folk. I found the book both alarmingly insightful and inspiring. Don't be too influenced by the negative spin - These massive money-making companies may well be killing us for profit.
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Liz McHale
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, but very American
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2016
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Excellent, but very American, not all the info is relevant to the UK. That said, definitely the way to go !!!
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Marc Draco
1.0 out of 5 stars CONTENTS: Fear, half-truths, errors and boasts. WARNING: May Contain Nuts.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2015
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As of this writing, I've only scanned through the book but my worst fears were confirmed. Dr. Hyman's foreword contains a bundle of errors which are inexcusable for an MD - and presumably duplicated from Vani Hari's own fallacious claims which are multitudinous. We bought this book for review as research for a documentary on Food Babe and it's just confirmed what we already thought. Not only is Hari clueless about much of the science she quotes, her sources are as specious and untrustworthy as what she laughably calls "research"

If you want to find out more what's really in your food, E For Additives is far more honest and informed than this self-indulgent rubbish is.

My 1984 copy came from the 16th re-reprint - and it's still as relevant today as it ever was.
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Mr. C. Street
1.0 out of 5 stars A hard science and food facts book with something lurking underneath..
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 February 2015
Having read a few sections of a friends copy, who was gushing priase for it I had to let her down gently. Hari is no food scientist. She qualified in computing. Hari has no training in science, and this shows. The book is a simple crusade against "big Food" I guess that "Big Pharma" has too well funded or experience a defence. I'm not really sure what she is actually fighting against it's never very clear. The book is just a diatribe of pseudoscientific nonsense that makes little sense and has no coherent or cogent argument.

Haris's lack of scientific understanding is well known, from cases where she argues that airliners are not putting enough oxygen into cabin air (they actually put a lot in - but we don't breathe a pure oxygen atmosphere despite Hari's thoughts). There's striaghtforward confusion of other names - for example propylene glycol alginate used to clarify beers and wine. Obtained by boiling up seaweed - and fully natural. But she conflated it with propylene glycol - antifreeze - and accused brewers of adding antifreeze to beer. Ignorance of the chemicals caused brewers problems fighting off accusation that were totally baseless and without merit.

Other typical lines of attack are against anythng that has a "chemically sounding name" - on the premise of if you cannot pronouce or understand it then it must be bad. Sodium ascorbate anyone? how about the cyanide derivative allyl-isothiocyanate? Or perhaps pyridoxal 5'-phosphate? Maybe you'd be happy with some 2,15-dimethyl-14-(1,5-dimethylhexyl)tetracyclo[8.7.0.02,7.011,15]heptadec-7-en-5-ol Sound yummy?

That's the trick she uses. Scarey names, must be bad. But if you cut all those out, you'd die, because they are respectively, Vitamin C, the antioxidant found in cabbages, Vitamin B6, and the final one is cholesterol - essential for building hormones.

Hari's one desire is fear. Scare you with "science" and persuade you to her viewpoint because it must be safer. I still don't understand why, but her methods leave much to be desired.
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Roy Alexander
1.0 out of 5 stars appalling and misleading
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2015
The one positive thing about Vani Hari is that she has a huge following of people who desperately want to change the world for the better. Unfortunately for them this isn't the book that will achieve that. I genuinely don't know where to start because there is so much unscientific, pseudo scientific and outright erroneous information in it. There's lots of comments about toxins in it, but with no mention anywhere about how the dose of something makes something toxic or not. There's plenty of comments about different chemicals being toxic or carcinogenic but with no robust evidence to back these statements up. Then nothing of any substance about truly dangerous chemicals like sugar or alcohol. Her actual diet has been accurately compared to a guide to anorexia because there are so many similarities. (Except the bit where she advises that you should bathe in pure filtered water.)

Then she also tells us not to eat GMOS because they are so dangerous, when anyone with two brain cells can check copious amounts of publically available research that demonstrates that GMOs are not only entirely safe but will be changing the world for the better, and saving lives in the developing world.

If only she used her influence and following to get people to stop smoking and drinking, exercising more and cutting back on sugar and salt then she'd really be doing some good. But then she wouldn't get all the $$££€£$ from her sponsors and affiliates.

Steer well clear.
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W. WOOD
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read..
Reviewed in the United States on 30 March 2017
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This was an excellent read. As has been previously stated, I've also read various unflattering comments about Mrs. Hari with regard to this book and her activism in general. Some say she's not a medical doctor, nutritional expert or scientist; so she's unqualified to write about food. I wholeheartedly disagree. After reading this cover to cover, I feel the book is very well written and presented in an understandable format.

Mrs. Hari did a great job explaining how some corporate food giants routinely add antibiotics to livestock such as chicken and cattle, usually on company owned or company sponsored farms. This makes the livestock bulk up quicker so that it can be slaughtered sooner and shipped to market. Some in the restaurant industry adds MSG and other nasty chemicals to our food in order to preserve it, stabilize it, change its color, texture or consistency, add color or whatever other goal they have in mind to get the average Joe Schmo to eat their toxic concoctions.

Monsanto manufactures and markets Roundup, a weed killer that's been around since 1970 (according to Wikipedia), and it's used on many farms around the world. With bulk supplies and different variations of pesticides being used on crops (no matter who manufactures them), you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the possibility these chemicals can leech into and contaminate the very food we're eating or you're feeding your family.

We now have genetically modified plants grown from seeds which have the unnatural ability to resist certain pests. Once crops are harvested and processed into commercially available food, it can have any number of additives contained within that ultimately entices us to eat whatever is placed in front of us, because it looks, smells or tastes good.

Unfortunately the only way to rid ourselves of many of these contaminates is to grow our own food or purchase it from a local farmer, farmers market or a grocer such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Thrive Market or Sprouts to name a few. Many people don't have access to these specialty grocers because they're usually located in the more densely populated areas. Purchasing food that's grown naturally or raised to a higher standard usually means paying more for it, so many people choose not to buy it or can't afford it.

The book gives excellent insight into what types of food to eat and what to avoid. There's a list of suggested places to shop in person or online to purchase meat, produce or even protein products. The book is footnoted and gives sources and references for the information contained within. The forward was written by Dr. Mark Hyman, MD.

I don't mean to imply that this or any other book is perfect when it pertains to what I or anyone else chooses to eat, but this particular book interested me enough to read it and make my own decisions based on the information presented. For anyone who believes that science is infallible, medical professionals have all the answers or corporations and governments won't lie to us to achieve a particular goal, I feel they're doing themselves and possibly their loved ones a disservice.

Like many politicians, science can be, and often is motivated by money. Medical practitioners tell us this year that a food product is good for us, but next year they tell us a different story. Medical professionals and scientists can ultimately be bought. All science is not necessarily bad, but it's impossible to tell the good from the not so good when the majority of us are not scientists; especially when we're just trying to pay the bills and raise our families.

Thank goodness there are people like Vani Hari and many others like her, that do the legwork, blog and publicize the information to identify the jokers that would sell us anything as a means of enriching themselves. I know there are those who would argue that Mrs. Hari is also motivated by money because she promotes various products on her website. I would respond by saying we all need to earn a living. She has identified a niche that allows her to do just that, while also providing for her own family. Keep up the good work Vani.
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Linda
5.0 out of 5 stars Vani shares her passion!
Reviewed in Canada on 6 March 2015
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Vani is clearly getting to people, one way or another. More 1 star ratings than 5 star.... hmmmm, something seems amiss. Are those 1 star raters from the big food corporations and chemical companies? I can't help but wonder.
Do we really need to be scientists to understand how to eat well and to know whether or not to believe Vani? I don't think so. She is just trying to open our eyes and to help us use our common sense. It doesn't make sense to have more than 15 ingredients in a food that we are unable to pronounce. We've been fed so much nonsense by the FDA and other so called experts, that many of us are ready to listen to "the little guy" who has good old plain reason that comes with knowledge from an educated background. Vani doesn't have to be a scientist to have knowledge. How many courses in nutrition have scientists taken in their schooling? The same goes for doctors. Where exactly does their expertise in nutrition come from? Wasn't it the "experts" that told us to eat low-fat in the nineties, which only meant that we ended up consuming more sugar than ever before. The scientific experts are the ones who have led us into this unhealthy mess of obesity, increased levels of diabetes and cancer, etc. in the first place. How much more sickness is there since chemicals have been added to our foods? Our grandparents weren't sick like we are today. This is what makes us stop and think and ask: what is going on and what can we do about it?
I loved the book and am thankful for Vani sharing what she has learned and for not being afraid to stand up to the corporate bullies. Vani is a naturally beautiful woman, but most of her glow comes from what she feeds her body. There are a lot of pretty people out there, but they don't all have that healthy glow. All I want for me and my family is to eat well, and therefore feel well. We have noticed such a difference since following Vani's advice. Since eating wholesome, chemical free foods, my twice a day migraines have disappeared without the use of medication! How can I ignore evidence like that!
I respect the big corporations who have been called out by Vani, but who are trying to make positive change rather than choosing to attack her. There is no reason to bully someone who has a different point of view on a topic. Don't buy the book if you think she is crazy, but don't make fun of those of us who after doing our own research, choose to respect and follow Vani's advice. We are not blindly following her, but we are also not blindly following the "experts" anymore either. I am thankful that I did spend the money on the book and we will use it as a reference tool on our path to good health. Thank you Vani!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book open my eyes how we foolish eat poison ...
Reviewed in India on 1 August 2016
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Very good book open my eyes how we foolish eat poison food thank God
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CathyC.
4.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening
Reviewed in Spain on 30 June 2016
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Great book changed my view on many things. The only minus is the lack of pics with the recipes at the end. I need visual images to want to create dishes!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this!
Reviewed in France on 15 October 2015
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This is a fantastic book. So much information in a very accessible and casual tone. I've learned so much about the toxins that are added to our food. I'm both shocked and empowered. Thank you, Food Babe!
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