This provocative new resource explores 15 common controversies in the field of food and nutrition.
Introduction
Food Additives
Food Irradiation
Vegetarian/Vegan Diets
Animal Growth Hormones
Imported Food
Life Enhancing/Life Threatening
Food Labeling
Hidden Ingredients in Food
Large Doses of Vitamins
Fast Foods
Antioxidants
Organic Foods
High-Protein Diets
Popular Diets
Genetically Modified Foods
Index
MYRNA CHANDLER GOLDSTEIN has been a freelance writer and
independent scholar for two decades. Her website is Doing Good,
While Doing Business: Support Socially Responsible Companies
(www.changethemold.com). She is the author of Boys into Men,
Controversies in Food and Nutrition, and Controversies in the
Practice of Medicine with Greenwood Press.
MARK A. GOLDSTEIN, M.D. is Chief of Pediatrics and Student Health
Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. with
Chandler Goldstein, he is the co-author of Controversies in the
Practice of Medicine (Greenwood, 2001) and Boys into Men: Staying
Healthy Through the Teen Years (Greenwood, 2000).
?[a] smoothly written introduction to the current state of
knowledge on fifteen issues related to food and nutrition which
have been the subjects of extensive discussion and debate in the
popular press and media....Given the swiftly changing nature of
information on all of the subjects surveyed, the volume can be used
as a quick reference in high school, public, and university
reference collections serving undergraduate students....suited for
use as a supplemental book of readings or secondary textbook in
lower division courses on food and nutrition.?-E-STREAMS Vol. 6,
No. 6
?[T]he authors of this book have done an excellent job of
presenting both sides of the argument on meaty topics such as
whether food irradiation is safe and what the pros and cons of it
are....[r]ecommend this book to anyone wanting in depth information
on controversial nutrition and food issues. It would be
particularly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students in
the field of nutrition, and food policy.?-Dietetics Today
?For anyone confused about the barrage of messages we get every day
about nutrition, this is an excellent book. Each chapter includes a
list of references and Internet sites with additional information.
Thoroughly enjoyable to read, the book is designed as a high school
or college reference text, but it would also interest the general
public. Highly recommended. General readers; lower- and
upper-division undergraduates; faculty.?-Choice
?You should add subject headings from the book into your database
so students will be able to locate them when you purchase this
necessary reference book. Recommended.?-Gale-Free Resources
"Ýa¨ smoothly written introduction to the current state of
knowledge on fifteen issues related to food and nutrition which
have been the subjects of extensive discussion and debate in the
popular press and media....Given the swiftly changing nature of
information on all of the subjects surveyed, the volume can be used
as a quick reference in high school, public, and university
reference collections serving undergraduate students....suited for
use as a supplemental book of readings or secondary textbook in
lower division courses on food and nutrition."-E-STREAMS Vol. 6,
No. 6
"ÝT¨he authors of this book have done an excellent job of
presenting both sides of the argument on meaty topics such as
whether food irradiation is safe and what the pros and cons of it
are....Ýr¨ecommend this book to anyone wanting in depth information
on controversial nutrition and food issues. It would be
particularly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students in
the field of nutrition, and food policy."-Dietetics Today
"[T]he authors of this book have done an excellent job of
presenting both sides of the argument on meaty topics such as
whether food irradiation is safe and what the pros and cons of it
are....[r]ecommend this book to anyone wanting in depth information
on controversial nutrition and food issues. It would be
particularly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students in
the field of nutrition, and food policy."-Dietetics Today
"For anyone confused about the barrage of messages we get every day
about nutrition, this is an excellent book. Each chapter includes a
list of references and Internet sites with additional information.
Thoroughly enjoyable to read, the book is designed as a high school
or college reference text, but it would also interest the general
public. Highly recommended. General readers; lower- and
upper-division undergraduates; faculty."-Choice
"You should add subject headings from the book into your database
so students will be able to locate them when you purchase this
necessary reference book. Recommended."-Gale-Free Resources
"[a] smoothly written introduction to the current state of
knowledge on fifteen issues related to food and nutrition which
have been the subjects of extensive discussion and debate in the
popular press and media....Given the swiftly changing nature of
information on all of the subjects surveyed, the volume can be used
as a quick reference in high school, public, and university
reference collections serving undergraduate students....suited for
use as a supplemental book of readings or secondary textbook in
lower division courses on food and nutrition."-E-STREAMS Vol. 6,
No. 6
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