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

Contents

Introduction....................11
Chapter 1. When the Medication Is Ready, the Disease (and Patients) Will Appear–or, When TV Makes You Sick....................17
Chapter 2. Fragile: Handle with Risperdal ... and Seroquel and Zyprexa and Geodon....................50
Chapter 3. Weapons of Hormonal Therapy....................72
Chapter 4. The War after the War: How a Scandal-Linked Drug Is Adding to Combat Troops' Wounds....................91
Chapter 5. A Side Effect from Which There Is No Recovery....................114
Chapter 6. Protecting Bones from Products That Protect Bones....................138
Chapter 7. We're Drinking What? The Rise and Fall of Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone....................159
Chapter 8. "Eggsposés" and Teflon Chicken Dons....................179
Chapter 9. The Drugstore in Your Meat....................200
Chapter 10. Farmer Jones: Do You Know Who Your Employees Are? Not Those Employees!....................220
Chapter 11. Slaughter Transparency and Its Downsides....................240
Chapter 12. Mad Cow Disease–Forgotten but Not Necessarily Gone....................258
Chapter 13. Brave New Food: So Safe It's Not Even Labeled....................277
Acknowledgments....................295
Notes....................297