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WHAT YOUR FOOD ATE

Anne Biklé David R. Montgomery

How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

A call to action that underscores why the roots of good health start with how we farm.

We know that our diet influences our health. But is there more to the adage "you are what you eat?" Connecting the dots from agriculture to medicine, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé argue we overlook the other half of a healthy diet: how we grow our food. Journeying from research labs to the fields of regenerative farmers, they uncover scientific and historical evidence for how farming practices - so often disruptive to microbial partnerships - influence soil health and shape the types and amounts of health-promoting minerals, fats, and phytochemicals in our crops, meat, and dairy - and thus ourselves. Understanding these connections has profound implications for what we eat and how we grow it, now and in the future. A capstone work from lauded authors, What Your Food Ate is a story both sobering and inspiring: what's good for the soil is good for us, too. David R. Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington and a MacArthur Fellow. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Anne Biklé is a biologist and environmental planner. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Book Published 2022-06-21 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA)

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A must read for farmers, ranchers, eaters, and scientists. What Your Food Ate illuminates connections critical to each of us - and our planet.

Authoritative, informative, and entertaining. What Your Food Ate is both eye-opening and a call to action for consumers, farmers, and food companies alike.

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.. An exquisitely crafted narrative of ecological literacy that upends more than a century of conventional thinking.

Japanese rights have sold to TSUKIJI SHOKAN.

In this timely investigation, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé dig into the earth to determine how we are not just what we eat but also the land our food comes from.