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Product Description Cari Schaefer’s groundbreaking book, The Food Solution, inspires readers to skip the C.R.A.P. (Chemically Ridden Altered Products) and follow her 21-Day Diet Detox to find lasting health with real nutrition. Over the years, the American diet has moved further away from whole food sources and has become increasingly riddled with chemicals and other toxins. The processed foods that have become staples of our diet have contributed to an array of physical and psychological illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, anxiety, and even cancer. We have forgotten the reason we eat: to nourish our bodies and minds to grow and thrive. In Schaefer’s holistic medical practice, she has helped many people halt or reverse illnesses by showing her clients how to return to eating food (not food products). By guiding readers on a 21-Day Diet Detox that can be tailored to fit every person’s lifestyle, Schaefer teaches readers how to use nutrition as a healing tool. She arms readers with a wealth of knowledge about our modern, compromised food system, and educates readers on the many ways our food has been modified to become not only non-nutritious but often harmful. Even if you eat a healthy diet, this book can help you find hidden sources of chemicals making it on to the dinner table. Based on research and more than sixteen years of clinical practice, The Food Solution offers concrete ways to identify, find, and eat food; shows you how to add nutrients and avoid chemicals and inflammatory foods; and provides food nutrition facts, shopping lists, meal plans, and recipes. If you are feeling overweight, tired, and older than your years, or just need a tune-up, read and implement the guidelines in this book today and you will jumpstart a lifelong journey of healthy living From the Author Every day in America almost every person will, at some point, put something in his or her mouth and swallow it in the act of what we call eating. After years in private practice observing clients struggle with choices around food, I became curious about what motivates people to eat. I started asking my clients, "Why do you eat?" The responses were illuminating. Illuminating because I discovered not only why people eat what they eat but also why it didn't matter to them that most of what they were eating wasn't actually food. Yes, you read that correctly. The fact is that a large majority of what we eat in this country no longer meets the definition of food. Food: any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth. And this fact is a problem! Based on what I see in my holistic medicine practice every day, it's a really big problem. What you eat has a direct impact on how you feel today, and how you will feel as you age. And what we are eating is not food.' In the powerful documentary "Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock spent one month eating only fast food, three meals a day. Before the month was up, he had completely changed his health for the worse, gaining 24 pounds, raising his cholesterol by 65 points, and worst of all, developing a fatty liver. This happened because he ate the worst form of C.R.A.P., or Chemically Ridden Altered (food) Products. C.R.A.P . is what we are sold to eat that looks like food, tastes like food, but, as you will learn, has little to do with food. And, from my experience, it can make you sick. In the case of Spurlock's fast food experiment, it only took him three weeks before his health became so impaired his doctor implored him to stop--that's how much damage he had done. Many of you may be thinking that you do not eat C.R.A.P., and if you do, you certainly do not eat it everyday three meals a day like Morgan Spurlock did. The sad fact is, however, that you are most likely falling victim to it more often than you think. C.R.A.P. is hiding everywhere, right in front of your face, even at t