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What Your Food Ate

How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

David R. Montgomery (University of Washington) Anne Biklé

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WW Norton & Co
11 August 2022
David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikl?? take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.

The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity?

With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Bikl?? chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.

Humanity's hallmark endeavors of agriculture and medicine emerged from our understanding of the natural world?and still depend on it. Montgomery and Bikl?? eloquently update this fundamental reality and show us why what's good for the land is good for us, too. What Your Food Ate is a must-read for farmers, eaters, chefs, doctors, and anyone concerned with reversing the modern epidemic of chronic diseases and mitigating climate change.

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Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   591g
ISBN:   9781324004530
ISBN 10:   1324004533
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David R. Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow. Anne Biklé is a biologist and environmental planner. What Your Food Ate is the capstone of their “Dirt Trilogy.” She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews for What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

Authoritative, informative, and entertaining. Montgomery and Bikle trace the way an array of health-promoting compounds in food begins with how we treat the soil. What Your Food Ate is both eye-opening and a call to action for consumers, farmers, and food companies alike--Emeran Mayer, MD, author of The Mind-Gut Connection Sure to become a classic--a biological Rosetta Stone that intimately and elegantly shows how the health of soil, plants, animals, and human beings are inseparable. What Your Food Ate is timely wisdom needed by all, an exquisitely crafted narrative of ecological literacy that upends more than a century of conventional thinking that fostered the misguided dominance of chemical farms, ultra-processed food, and the global rise of metabolic disease.--Paul Hawken, author of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation


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