I recently had the pleasure of reading the book Food Over Medicine: The Conversation That Could Save Your Life. Authors Dr. Pamela Popper, PhD, ND and Glen Merzer take on the subjects of health, nutrition, and the practice of modern medicine as we know it today. They do an excellent job in doing so and in a very unusual fashion might I add.
Food Over Medicine is literally a conversation between Glen and Pam on some of the most pressing health issues that face our current system today. Both authors maintain a high degree of credibility and professionalism that you would expect when covering these serious topics, yet their style is fun, casual, and entertaining to say the least.
About The Authors
Dr. Pamela Popper, PhD, ND is the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum located in Colombus, OH. She is a naturopathic doctor who uses lifestyle medicine, and more specifically plant-based nutrition, to prevent and reverse many of the chronic diseases ailing her patients. She has appeared in the blockbuster documentary Forks Over Knives and is an internationally recognized speaker and expert in the field of nutrition, medicine, and health.
Glen Merzer is coauthor of Mad Cowboy with Howard Lyman, as well as No More Bull! with Howard Lyman and Joanna Samorow-Merzer. Glen is a playwright and screenwriter residing in California. He has been a vegetarian for forty years and vegan for almost twenty.
Food Over Medicine - The Inside Scoop
Food Over Medicine is a refreshingly easy read containing eight chapters packed with information you need to know as a healthcare consumer to avoid getting trapped in a medical system which, more often than not, produces more profits than health.
Chapter 1 – Deep-Fried Butter on a Stick and Other Atrocities
The popular topics of obesity and sickness start out this story as a look around the US shows a bleak future, especially if we continue to consume traditional fare at traditional American events. I’ll let Glen and Pam take it away from here:
“Glen Merzer (GM) - I’ve got a candidate for the worst food out there. I saw this on a Sunday morning news show. At the Iowa State Fair, the big hit this year was deep-fried butter.
Pam Popper (PP) - Deep-fried butter?
GM - On a stick. Four ounces of butter deep-fried, dipped in honey, and topped with a sugary glaze.
PP - Does it come with an angioplasty?”
Chapter 2 – The Program
So what should Americans eat if health is our ultimate goal? Again, Glen and Pam take it away…
“GM - Let’s talk about the optimal diet… Is there any truth to the idea that different people need wildly different diets, or are we mostly alike in what we ought to be eating?
PP - We’re shockingly alike. The only thing that differentiates us significantly is food allergies. My attorney who died a couple years ago at sixty-one, was in his fifties when I met him. He had been allergic to cherries, peaches, and apricots since he was five. Well, he could eat a plant-based diet, but since cherries, peaches, and apricots sent him into anaphylactic shock, we kept him away from those foods…
GM - Wait a minute. He ate a plant-based diet, but died at sixty-one?
PP - Well, he cheated a lot. He died of noncompliance…”
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