Nutrition is a hot topic in the media as well as in the market place. But how much of the information given to the consumer is hype and how much is accurate? In Taking the Fear out of Eating, two established scientists have distilled the information from thousands of scientific studies into a succinct, easily read description of what is known, what is merely suspected, and, importantly, what is not known about nutrition and how food choices might affect health. The book takes a hard look at both sides of the controversy about the connection between food and health, with particular emphasis on diet and the chronic diseases of cancer and heart disease. Food is of course essential to our survival but our food supply is often portrayed as dangerous--loaded with additives, pesticides, salt, sugar, fat, and cholesterol. Taking the Fear out of Eating puts these topics into perspective in an authoritative and entertaining manner. This is a book that everyone will find relevant to their current eating habits.
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"[The authors] have the worthy aim of providing the information you need to sort out the hype from the genuinely helpful...other readers may well appreciate the message that there is little scientific evidence to suggest that guilt, fear and suspicion ought to shape our attitudes to food." Susan Aldridge, New Scientist
"...an excellent guide for those with nutrition-related questions and concerns." Robert B. Rucker,Journal of Nutrition
"...an excellent guide for those with nutrition-related questions and concerns." Robert B. Rucker,Journal of Nutrition
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Nutrition is a "hot" topic in the media as well as in the market place. The book takes a hard look at the controversy over the relationship between food and health, with particular emphasis on diet and the chronic diseases of cancer and heart disease.
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Truth as it is !,
By Nedim Albayrak (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taking the Fear out of Eating (Paperback)
This book enligthened me about the issues regarding realtionships between food/diet and health. It simply states what we know, what we do not know about food and health. It clarifies issues regarding foods, health, diet, diseases etc, by just simply discussing the evidence from original research. Every chapter start with a very nice and funny introduction, I honestly laughed a lot.What evidence do we have for widespread unscientific loads of information. It goes on details of some the myths, imagined truths, about war on cholesterol, war on fat, organic, etc. If you want to know what are these all about and get the bottom of it from J. Allread, a well respected expert in human nutrition, this book is a tereasure for you to uncover.
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After you get through the advertisements and the media reports of the day touting this food or panning that one, each of us is left with the question, "What shall we have for dinner?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
daily food guide, reasonable body weight, heart disease symptoms, intestinal mucosal cells, calcium propionate, food additives amendment, nutritional deficiency diseases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, American Heart Association, New York, World War, Department of Agriculture, The San, Recommended Dietary Allowances, Sylvester Graham, Civil War, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Nobel Prize, The Jungle, Battle Creek, John Harvey Kellogg, Uncle Edgar, Agriculture Handbook, Common Units, Dutch East Indies, Government Printing Office, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nutrition Today, Nutritive Value of American Foods, Public Health Service, South Carolina New!
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After you get through the advertisements and the media reports of the day touting this food or panning that one, each of us is left with the question, "What shall we have for dinner?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
daily food guide, reasonable body weight, heart disease symptoms, intestinal mucosal cells, calcium propionate, food additives amendment, nutritional deficiency diseases Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, American Heart Association, New York, World War, Department of Agriculture, The San, Recommended Dietary Allowances, Sylvester Graham, Civil War, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Nobel Prize, The Jungle, Battle Creek, John Harvey Kellogg, Uncle Edgar, Agriculture Handbook, Common Units, Dutch East Indies, Government Printing Office, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nutrition Today, Nutritive Value of American Foods, Public Health Service, South Carolina New!
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- Nutritive Value of American Foods in Common Units by Catherine F. Adams on 5 pages
- The American and His Food (The Rise of urban America) by Richard Osborn Cummings on 5 pages
- Recommended Dietary Allowances: 10th Edition (Dietary Reference Intakes) by Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the Recommended Dietary Allowances on 4 pages
- Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer by Nutrition, and Cancer Committee on Diet on 4 pages
- Food and Nutrition by William H. Sebrell Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Fat to Firm at Any Age by Alisa Bauman in Front Matter, page 10, and page 110
- Just a Gaze: Female Clientele of Diet Clinics in Cairo: An Ethnomedical Study (Cairo Papers in Social Science) by Basyouny in Back Matter
- No-Fail Fitness Tips by The Editors of Prevention Health Books on page 4
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