Food Isn't Medicine by Joshua Wolrich

The whole idea of fixing your life with food is a bit far fetched. Food is important but it is important to understand that a body need all the nutrition, and excluding or overdoing anything can lead to more imbalances.

This is a good book to get some real insights about dieting and the whole fed around the superfoods and what not. When there are dieting tips all around from an Instagram reel to food myths in blogs/magazines it is easy to get carried away by a trend just because it is trending. The idea of minding your food is not bad but not to the extent that you start looking at it as a solution for all your problems and start monitoring it instead of enjoying it.

And the most important lesson is to stop and think before you fall for misinformation.

Love

When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey

There will never be an exact estimation of how many people were lost during the crack epidemic in 80s and 90s. And it is more difficult to find the aftereffects on the people who lost a loved one in that epidemic.

This book tries to bring the stories of the people who saw and lived that epidemic first hand. For an outsider it is difficult to know what these people were going through but one can't oversee its outcomes with generations lost to crack.

But did we got over it after 80s and 90s? Sad part is that it was never over. It just had a different drug at different times. From opioids, to crack or to fentanyl now, it was always the addiction only the substance was different. In fact, in a lot of cases the chemistry was same.

It is not difficult to get people clean but it requires honesty from both sides. And before the blame game starts for the failure it is important to understand that there was a framework in place to support these changes at a larger level to contain this.

Peace

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

How far a business can go to make money?

Sackler is not really a dynasty. It is a bunch of people who didn't mind making money by any means possible. The irony is that with all this money they wanted to establish their stature in a society that they thought was important. They bought/sponsored all the arts and music but it might have been just another business deal. Highly likely they understood the price but never the value of those art pieces that they could buy.

Since no one ever got any jail time for their misdeeds, it is a prime example of what money can buy. And remember they were not the only one who minted money during those unfortunate years of opioid epidemic. But they were the only one who tried to hide it all behind the art and other things considered more humane.

Peace