Book Review: Crazy Makers
Why have the mental illness and mental disorder rates increased in recent years? Is it the food we eat, or just as important, the food we don’t eat?
According to Carol Simontacchi and her book “The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children” it does. This book not only attacks the food industry for putting chemicals and toxins into our food, but shows us as shoppers, wives, moms (and dads!) how we are starving our brains with foods that have no nutrition and chemicals that can have damaging effects.
I like the way this book is set up as it starts at the very beginning of life with a chapter for pre-natal nutrition, moving on to infant nutrition, kids, teens and finally adults. I think this book would be especially beneficial for those parents that have children who are chronically sick or unruly children doctors want to medicate, as she shows different ways that kids can have food sensitivities that doctors don’t check for.
About donielle
Donielle is an amateur herbalist and natural momma to two littles (with another babe in heaven) after dealing with infertility. She has a passion for nourishing nutrition, natural living, and spreading the word on how food truly affects our health. Her blog Naturally Knocked Up focuses on fertility and reproductive health and her book on natural fertility will be available in June 2012. She also runs a local blog (Grand Rapids Natural Living) and is active the local community in order to provide the area with resources and information for natural families.
I’m loving your book reviews – just added this to my Amazon wishlist.
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It’s really a good book! I got it from the library. Hoping I can find it on paperbackswap one of these days.
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