John Robbins (born October 26 1947) is an American author known for his books on food and health. He is the son of Irma Robbins and Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and received a Master's Degree from Antioch College, in 1976. Rather than following the ice-cream parlor legacy of his father, he left the company to seek a life he found more rewarding. He and his wife Deo were married on March 10, 1967.[1] Using history, anecdotes, and extensive citations from peer-reviewed research, Robbins advocates a healthy plant-based diet for personal and environmental health. In 1987, he wrote Diet for a New America, an exposé on the connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He updated these ideas in his 2001 book The Food Revolution, which includes information on organic food, genetically modified food, and factory farming. His 2006 book Healthy at 100, published by Random House, was printed on 100% post-consumer non-chlorine bleached paper, a first for a book from a major U.S. publisher. Subsequently, Random House committed to raising the amount of recycled paper in all its books from 3% to 30%, a shift that will save more than 500,000 trees a year.[2]
The documentary film Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock has a short interview with Robbins.
He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement.[3]
Bibliography
- Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth, 1987
- May All Be Fed: Diet For a New World, 1992
- Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing, 1996
- The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World, 1997
- The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 2001
- Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, 2006
See also
References
- ^ Robbins, John (2001). The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. Conari Press. ISBN 1-57324-702-2.
- ^ Claudia Parsons, "US Random House vows to use 30 pct recycled paper", Reuters, May 16, 2006, accessed May 17 2007.
- ^ http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633
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