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The Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition

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This book is a must for anyone who loves food. Nine comprehensive chapters covering not only fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes, but also meat and poultry, fish and shellfish and dairy and eggs.

The chapter on Nutrition Basics is essential for anyone who wants to come to terms with food and how it relates to good health. Appendicies include a Cooking Glossary (which describes in detail baking, boiling, braising, poaching, pressure cooking, roasting, simmering, steeping, stewing, and on and on ...), Fats and Oils, and Herbs and Spices.

Subsections of each item include topics such as availability, shopping tips, storage, preparations and serving suggestions. Nutritional information boxes are included indicating calories, fat content, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, cholesterol and sodium. Also listed are key vitamins and nutrients.

Fascinating information is also included .. for example, the fruit/vegetable argument about tomatoes is not only settled definitively (botanically a fruit, specifically a berry) but we are also informed that as the result of a tariff dispute, it was officially designated a vegetable in 1893 by the Supreme Court of the United States ... Proving that the court's having their collective head up their robes is nothing new.

If you are serious about learning how to improve your relationship with food (and who isn't?) you've simply got to have this book. I've had mine since 1995 (I got it in conjunction with a subscription to the University of California at Berkeley's Wellness Letter), and I still consult it regularly.

I think that this book, along with Julia Child's "The Way To Cook" would be an excellent foundation for anyone who is serious about health and nutrition.

This beautiful, great book is my "food bible". I use it to learn about different items, to know the nutritional value and to find out cooking procedures and times for various foods.

It is the best, all around nutrition book I have, and I am a food scientist (I attended University of California at Davis - I am surprised they don't recommend us to buy it!).

This is one of the best presents I have ever given to my parents too.

as a health and wellness instructor with the government, i am constantly asked to provide nutritional information and cooking tips for healthy eating. the wellness encyclopedia is one of the best tools i have. with it's clear, concise,writing and colorful pictures i highly recommend it's use in both schools and at home.

This book could be the only one l would need for healthy eating and to hugely extend my choice of foods. If I were to buy ONE book for people I love and want to stay healthy, easily, this book would be it.

I love this book! The photo pictures are so helpful to identify foods and then it tells me exactly what to do with it.

I have had this book for years and I use it often as a reference for selection, storage, preparation, and nutritional information of a variety of foods. I wish they would write an updated version -- if they did I would definitely purchase it. I recently purchased this book from Amazon to give as a gift, even though it is out of print.

The book arrived on time as indicated. The condition was exactly as stated and I am very happy with the transaction.

The book "The Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition" that we ordered arrived in the condition the seller said it was in and was packaged well. My husband's parents have one of these books. My daughter really liked it and wanted one for herself. It has a lot of information in it that she wanted. It is a good book for people who are interested in eating and living healthy. We were happy to find one on Amazon for her. Thankyou for making it possible to find things like this on-line. :)

This is probably one of the best books I've ever bought on food. It helps when I have a new food as it provides nutrition info, how to buy, store, prepare, etc. I have relied on this book over the years and recently bought another copy for my college-bound daughter. Truly a must-have book for every home!

I often use this book as a reference when I want to look up nutritional information or when I want to know what a certain food is that I've never hear of. It's full of information!