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Dark Calories
- How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back
- By: Dr Catherine Shanahan
- Narrated by: Dr Catherine Shanahan, Eliza Foss
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Dark Calories is the first book to definitively show that vegetable oil is the defining ingredient in both junk food and, terrifyingly, the entire modern diet, and makes the case that eliminating it is the single best thing you can do for your health. Dr Shanahan shows how three factors - a combination of endless advertising sound bites, undisclosed conflicts of interest in research, and the failure of medicine to focus on prevention - have destroyed human health and turned nutrition science into a farce.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO important, and so fascinating too.
- By sisterofnight451 on 18-11-24
- Dark Calories
- How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back
- By: Dr Catherine Shanahan
- Narrated by: Dr Catherine Shanahan, Eliza Foss
Could have been a few chapters long.
Reviewed: 06-10-24
The first few chapters had substance then suddenly it turned into nothing but filler material. It almost felt as if the book had been written by two separate people and thrown together afterwards.
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101 Ways to Swim Faster
- How to Swim Faster and Prevent Injury for Life
- By: Fares Ksebati
- Narrated by: Fares Ksebati
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
You can swim faster in days without having to spend more time at the pool. Most swimmers have a problem generating power in the water and swimming with easy speed! This book shows you how to move through the water using less energy. I wrote this book to help you swim faster! I want you to stop overthinking swimming and focus on what really matters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good ideas for improving speed.
- By Jammin042 on 18-09-24
- 101 Ways to Swim Faster
- How to Swim Faster and Prevent Injury for Life
- By: Fares Ksebati
- Narrated by: Fares Ksebati
Good ideas for improving speed.
Reviewed: 18-09-24
My review isn't so much a reflection on the book because I swim for fitness not speed swimming. This book focuses a lot on good technique, and race stuff. It wasn't really the book for me.
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The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- By: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstandingly informative
- By andrewjlockley on 02-04-23
- The WEIRDest People in the World
- How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
- By: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
Disappointed
Reviewed: 06-08-24
Heard about this idea and book online several times so I thought it would be a great book to check out. Even if I was convinced by the argument, which I am not, the author goes on and on rarely ever reaching the point.
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Race Marxism
- The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
- By: James Lindsay
- Narrated by: James Lindsay
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
Critical race theory is one of the hottest and most controversial topics in the world today, but what is it, really? Rightly understood, critical race theory is a reinvention of an older, terrible idea, Marxism, using race "as the central construct for understanding inequality" in place of economic class. That is, critical race theory is race Marxism. The evidence of this claim is so overwhelming upon even casual examination that it is a shock that it isn't immediately plain to everyone who encounters it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Difficult, But Important Read
- By S. Morris on 24-12-22
- Race Marxism
- The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
- By: James Lindsay
- Narrated by: James Lindsay
Much better books out there
Reviewed: 21-03-24
I was disappointed by this book as it is a worst version if better books, such as "America's Cultural Revolution" by Rufo. The only thing in this book that wasn't better covered by Rufo is some woffle about Hegel which has been covered by Lindsay ad nauseam on the New Discourses podcast. The book isn't bad, but it's neither good, original or even as god as simular books.
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America's Cultural Revolution
- How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
- By: Christopher F. Rufo
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
In the 1960s, Mao launched China’s Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be “re-educated.” China’s revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it’s just been slower, calmer, and more effective?
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5 out of 5 stars
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How Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion came into being
- By Freethinker on 27-08-23
- America's Cultural Revolution
- How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
- By: Christopher F. Rufo
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
Fascinating history of the 'woke' thingy
Reviewed: 21-03-24
Fascinating history of the 'woke' idology that is currently sweaping the world. Well written, well read and insightful.
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Ravenous
- How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape
- By: Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis
- Narrated by: Henry Dimbleby
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story5 out of 5 stars 98
You may not be aware of this – not consciously, at least – but you do not control what you eat. Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global system – one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there. The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. It sustains us, but it is also killing us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really interesting
- By Nicky Marchbank on 15-05-23
- Ravenous
- How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape
- By: Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis
- Narrated by: Henry Dimbleby
If DEFRA is your thing, read this.
Reviewed: 24-01-24
Started well with a good overview of the food system but the author is obsessed with the UK's current system and DEFRA. Overall, the book was slightly dissapointing.
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Saying No to a Farm-Free Future
- The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
- By: Chris Smaje
- Narrated by: Chris Smaje
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialized future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good arguments against eco-modernism
- By Abysseus on 03-03-24
- Saying No to a Farm-Free Future
- The Case for an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
- By: Chris Smaje
- Narrated by: Chris Smaje
Good rebutal of Monibot and other ecomodernists
Reviewed: 02-01-24
Good rebutal of Monibot and other ecomodernists and their odd technical fixes to the problems technology, and modern economic practices are creating. The only thing I felt annoying was the narrator's inability to prounounce the 't' in words.
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Regenesis
- Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 520
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 462
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 457
People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, there is another way.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Damaging and dangerous book
- By Dingo on 05-10-22
- Regenesis
- Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
Smug, pompus and self-righteous
Reviewed: 15-12-23
An aweful book that thinks we, as a species will start creating bacteria based food and government should sponser the transition from farms to giant lab made lazer printed food. The book is smug, pompus, self-righteous and just aweful on so many levels.
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Eating to Extinction
- The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
- By: Dan Saladino
- Narrated by: Dan Saladino
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 69
We live in an age of mass extinction. The earth's biodiversity is decreasing at a faster rate than ever. Industrial agriculture and the standardisation of taste are not only wiping out many edible plants but also the food cultures, histories and livelihoods that go with them. Inspired by a global project to collect and preserve foods that are at risk of extinction, Dan Saladino sets out to encounter these endangered foods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life changing
- By Andrew Railton on 14-04-24
- Eating to Extinction
- The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
- By: Dan Saladino
- Narrated by: Dan Saladino
Fascinating and informative
Reviewed: 16-11-23
The first three quarters of the book was fascinating, informative and eye opening. The end of the book felt added on and a departure of the main thrust but the beginning made up for that.
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Life in the Fasting Lane
- How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle - and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
- By: Dr. Jason Fung
- Narrated by: Eve Mayer
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Fasting is emerging as one of the most exciting medical advancements in recent memory. Its list of benefits extends far beyond weight loss and includes improved cardiovascular health, lower blood pressure, protection against cancer, and better cognitive function. While many of us may be able to handle the physical effects of fasting, the mental and social challenges are often daunting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 star all the way!!
- By Anonymous User on 28-05-20
- Life in the Fasting Lane
- How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle - and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
- By: Dr. Jason Fung
- Narrated by: Eve Mayer
Endless stories about the authors eating problems
Reviewed: 19-09-23
Couldn't finish the book since it was basically anecdotal stories about people with eating issues which improved with fasting. Better information on YouTube and my opinion of Dr. Fung has taken a battering.
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