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3
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Skinny Bitch
(Pennsylvania: Running Press, 2005), 108.

4
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(New York: Grand Central Life and Style, 2009).

5
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6
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7
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Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory
(New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013).

8
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11
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12
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19
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21
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22
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23
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(San Francisco: Conari Press, 2013), 61.

24
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25
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26
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27
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28
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29
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30
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32
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33
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34
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35
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36
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37
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(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 381.

38
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39
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(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 381.

40
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41
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42
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43
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44
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45
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46
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52
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Chapter Five:

1
Susan Bourrett,
Meat: A Love Story
(New York: Putnam, 2008), 26.

2
Nicolette Hahn Niman,
Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farming,
(New York: Harper, 2010), 155.

3
ME. Patrick, BE Mahon, SM Zansky, S Hurd, and E Scallan, “Riding in Shopping Carts and Exposure to Raw Meat and Poultry Products: Prevalence of and Factors Associated with this Risk Factor for Salmonella and Campylobacter Infection in Children Younger than 3 Years,”
J Food Prot
73(6)(2010), 1097–100.

4
Michael Greger MD, “Avoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections,”
NutritionFacts.org
,
10 June 2013,
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-chicken-to-avoid-bladder-infections/
. AR Manges, JR Johnson, “Foodborne Origins of Escherichiacoli Causing Extraintestinal Infections,”
Clin Infect Dis
55(5)(2012), 712–719.

5
“Alex’s Story,”
STOP Foodborne Illness,
accessed 20 January 2014,
http://www.stopfoodborneillness.org/content/alexs-story
.

6
Kathy Freston, “E. Coli Salmonella and Other Deadly Bacteria and Pathogens are in Food: Factory Farms Are the Reason,”
Huffington Post Books,
8 January 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/e-coli-salmonella-and-oth_b_415240.html
.

7
“Food Safety Homepage,”
Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/
, 17 April 2014.

8
Andy Frame, “Policy Changes in the Wake of the Jack in the Box E. Coli Outbreak,”
Food Safety News,
1 February 2013,
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/02/policy-changes-since-the-jack-in-the-box-e-coli-outbreak/#.UvXmVPldWSp
.

9
Andy Frame, “Policy Changes in the Wake of the Jack in the Box E. Coli Outbreak,”
Food Safety News,
1 February 2013,
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/02/policy-changes-since-the-jack-in-the-box-e-coli-outbreak/#.UvXmVPldWSp
.

10
Mary McKenna, “Big News But: USDA Bans Other E. Coli Strains,”
Wired,
13 September 2011,
http://www.wired.com/2011/09/other-e-coli/
.

11
Maryn McKenna, “Does Foodborne Illness Trigger Lifelong Health Problems,”
Wired,
30 March 2012,
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/foodborne-lifelong-problems/
.

12
Eve Conant, “America’s Dangerous Food-Safety System,”
The Daily Beast,
11 September 2011,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/13/food-safety-system-endangers-americans-due-to-lack-of-inspectors-budget-cuts.html
.

13
Michael Greger MD, “Chicken Out of UTIs,”
NutritionFacts.org
,
14 October 2010,
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-out-of-utis/
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Appl Environ Microbiol
76(6)(2010), 1709–1717.