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Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It Kindle Edition
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THE REAL COST OF INFLATION ON A COUNTRY can be best seen not through government-sanctioned data points circulated throughout the corporate sponsored media, but in the financial, physical, and mental health of its citizenry. Officials point to the increase of paper wealth as evidence that their stewardship in both the economy and nutrition has led to a rise in the quality of life. In reality, the past fifty years has seen the true standard of living for most Americans plummet. Debasement of the currency has left the American people poorer, and through the resulting degradation of the nutrients of their food supply, sicker than at any time in recent history. What follows is an examination of one of the most compelling “who[1]done-its” in American history. In Fiat Food, Lysiak unravels a plot by the largest institutions of American power and the outsized ramifications it has had on modern civilization.
“IN TERMS OF THE LIVES CUT SHORT, it would be no exaggeration to say that 20th century nutrition science and government food policies are the biggest crime in history, putting genocides and man-made famines to shame. Matthew Lysiak provides a gripping forensic investigation into the barely believable sequence of events, spanning over a century, which led to the complete overhaul of the modern diet and the current obesity, diabetes, and autoimmune disease epidemic ravaging our species.”
—SAIFEDEAN AMMOUS Internationally Best-selling Economist and Author
“WHAT IF THE FOOD YOU ATE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE to think clearly about the food you were eating—or for that matter, anything else? Could the western diet function as a tool of mass social control? Hell yes, as this remarkable book explains with horrifying clarity.”
—TUCKER CARLSON Author, Journalist, and Host of Tucker on X
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOct. 2 2023
- File size872 KB

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- ASIN : B0CKC4LD8L
- Publisher : The Saif House
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : Oct. 2 2023
- Language : English
- File size : 872 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 308 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8988821335
- Page Flip : Enabled
- 鶹 Rank: #132,917 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Matthew Lysiak is a nationally recognized journalist and author of Newtown: An American Tragedy (Gallery/Simon & Schuster, December 2013), Drudge Revolution, and several other books.
The story of his family is the subject of the series Home Before Dark which premiered April 3 on Apple TV Plus
As an investigative journalist for the New York Daily News, Mr. Lysiak has reported on hundreds of national stories and has appeared as a contributor on The Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and countless other national and local media outlets to discuss his work.
Mr. Lysiak is also co-author of the bestselling series Hilde Cracks the Case (Scholastic 2017), which is soon to be made into a television series by Paramount/Anonymous Content and of the young adult memoir of teen scientist Jack Andraka, Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World (Harper Collins March 2015 and Voted Best STEM Book of 2017 by the National Science Teachers Association),
His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, The New York Sun, AM New York, and The Guardian.
Mr. Lysiak and his family are also scheduled to be profiled in an upcoming episode of CBS 48 Hours.
Mr. Lysiak lives in an old bed and breakfast in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania with his wife, Bridget, and his four daughters, Isabel, 14, Hilde, 11, Georgia, 6, and Juliet, 3.
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- Reviewed in Canada on January 1, 2025Verified PurchaseNice analogy to Bitcoin here with lots of common sense information to get you going in the right direction
- Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2024Verified PurchaseOne of the eye openers and essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the real world in which we live. Can’t recommend enough, as for all of Saif’s other publications
- Reviewed in Canada on January 8, 2024Verified PurchaseGlad someone linked these problems (the Fed and the human health crisis) in a book.
Minor grievances:
The physical book itself has a cheap cover that curls wildly. The contents suffer from a lack of copyediting. No one wants to pay copyeditors anymore I guess.
Much of the content is a summary of the big real-food books of the last 20 years (Taubs, Teicholz, etc), which is necessary framing but also old news to those of us already immersed. Likewise, the libertarian reader will recognize the basics about the nature of inflation. The thesis, however, is the consilience of the two worlds and is essential and underrecognized. I am relieved to see someone finally publish about it. Categorize under 'necessary reading for all modern humans'
- Reviewed in Canada on May 12, 2024Verified PurchaseMoney is so important than anything else and good money will change everything better.
- Reviewed in Canada on October 9, 2023I'm approaching the end of Fiat Food - having read all of Saifedean's books in the last couple years, I find Lysiak's input most welcome to add even more razor-sharp clarity to the line of thinking being presented. The quality of research is superb, and the subject matter, while concerning, is presented in a level-headed fashion and does not encourage panic in the reader.
The western world MUST break away from government-vetted and corporation-vetted sources of information. Anyone who stands to gain financially or gain power from a line of messaging should be questioned. Brave speakers and authors who, if anything, have something to LOSE by speaking out are infinitely more credible. Thank you to the authors for your work.
Top reviews from other countries
- Heather MayReviewed in Australia on December 31, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Transformative and Essential - for Mothers
Verified PurchaseSensational - in every sense of the word.
If you have instinctively felt that something is amiss or awry with the current Zeitgeist - politically, financially, socially, culturally - then 'Fiat Food' will provide ample insight into investigating how the web of systems that govern our modern existence have riddled themselves with corruption, taking root in the cornerstone of our existence; human nutrition. Feeding your mind and your body with government-endorsed rubbish makes you feel consistently like trash and robs you of your autonomy to make decisions that are in your best interest, because your critical, logical mind has been co-opted by the nanny-state and the nutriment you consume makes you so dim, foggy and slow.
Being already familiar with Ammous' thesis is not necessary to see how Lysiak's argument is clearly borne out in almost every element of our modern life. This book will make you want to uproot that deeply entrenched dogma that is peddled in every pamphlet, textbook, government website or glossy food package and return to something instinctive - animal-based whole foods - because your life and the life of your children depend upon it.
Like most working mothers, I balance full-time work with management and preparation of the food in my household. Hacks and shortcuts in family nutrition seem like efficient alternatives to the labour-intensive cookery of our mothers and grandmothers. These shortcuts shortchange the health and wellbeing of your family - simple as that (didn't we know this on some level anyway...?).
This book will provide a new paradigm of thinking about about feeding your family and the crucial importance of making good decisions.
Sensationally brilliant.
- Jake WattsReviewed in the United States on June 7, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheap Money Leads to Cheap Food
Verified PurchaseThis book ties clear parallels between the western monetary system and food companies that push the standard American diet. It's a deep dive into history of food in the United States. Fiat Food is a MUST READ for those that want to know the reasoning behind terrible cheap food in grocery stores.
- alanjReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential read to understand how we're being poisoned and robbed at the same time.
Verified PurchaseI like reading books that are written by journalists, they tend to do more research than non-journalists. This is a thought provoking book. It covers not just food, but the whole sorry state of the worlds fiat currency system. I wasnt impressed with Bitcoin mention on the cover, but actually those later chapters on bitcoin are just as enlightening as the rest of the book. If you want to know why the world seems a pooer place than ever before especially in the UK and USA (But I guess whole of the world), then read this and you'll start to see............
- HellerReviewed in Germany on June 19, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Verified Purchasea great book. good summary of what modern pharma and food corporations are doing to their customers. the end of the book is also something i really like as a saifedean fanboy.
would buy again, thanks to the author
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Cliente 鶹Reviewed in Italy on August 27, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Ok
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