A comprehensive, no-nonsense guide to foods, nutrients, additives, preservatives, pollutants and everything else we eat and drink. Straight answers to complex questions based on up-to-the-minute research. More than 5,000 entries. Nutrient counts for more than 1,500 foods and beverages. Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for essential vitamins and minerals and the best foods for getting them. Fifty slimmed-down recipes from Boston Baked Beans to oven-fried chicken. How diet and nutrition can affect, reverse or cause diseases, disorders and deficiencies.
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Jean Anderson and Barbara Deskins have put together a food reference that is much more than just another calorie counter. From vitamin A, corn dogs, and durum wheat to flounder, nondairy creamers, and zwieback, the Bible covers more than 1,500 major foods and beverages, providing lucid descriptions of what the substances are, how they're used, and what they've got to do with your health. In addition, nutrient charts supply clear data on calories, proteins, and fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates, and a host of vitamins and minerals.
But while this information is all presented lucidly and accessibly, it's also available in many other nutrition tomes. What makes this reference special is the fact that Anderson and Deskins include so many other health-related items. Acetone peroxide (a flour additive) and acne, Islamic dietary laws and hair analysis, morning sickness and parasitic worms, rashes and "smart drinks," sweating and urinary-tract infections--these health issues are all discussed, with up-to-date details on what the scientific community knows about causes and cures. There's an entry on stainless-steel cooking utensils, a recipe for butternut squash and snow-pea salad with sesame dressing and another for Portuguese pumpkin soup (with nutrition charts, of course), an essay on fasting, a paragraph on the inferiority of plastic cutting boards (as compared to wood), and a warning on the bacterial dangers of refreezing. Truly a bible for the '90s, the decade where health is the new religion and nutrition, diet, and fitness its holy trinity, The Nutrition Bible is a remarkably comprehensive, timely, and engaging resource. --Stephanie Gold
About the Author
Jean Anderson is the author of many cookbooks, including the award-winning The Foods of Portugal (Morrow) and The Doubleday Cookbook.
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This review is from: The Nutrition Bible: The Comprehensive, No-Nonsense Guide To Foods, Nutrients, Additives, Preservatives, Pollutants And E (Paperback)
I can reccomend this book . It has never let me down when I wanted to see the value of a certain food.
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