| Description |
xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction 'What are we supposed to eat?' -- Part I. Deciding What to Have for Dinner: 1. Meeting nutrient needs from food: the simple nutrition truths -- 2. Alternative eating styles - the vegetarian diet -- Part II. The Nutrients: What They Do: 3. Extracting nutrients from food: digestion and absorption -- 4. The major nutrients - carbohydrate, fat and protein -- 5. Vitamins -- 6. Minerals -- 7. Fiber: a nutritional enigma -- Part III. Foods: 8. Conventional versus 'organic' food production methods: assessment of cost-to-benefit ratio -- 9. Food laws: avoiding the chicanery of yesteryears -- 10. Food processing and additives: between farm and table -- 11. Foods with reputations - the good, the bad and the ugly -- Part IV. Nutrition and Health: 12. What nutrition can and cannot do for you -- 13. Weight control -- 14. Diet and heart disease -- 15. Diet and cancer -- 16. Nutrition, chronic diseases and the quality of life -- Index |
| Analysis |
Diet |
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Diet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-296) and index |
| Subject |
Nutrition.
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
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| Author |
Allred, John B.
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| LC no. |
92008737 |
| ISBN |
0521431247 |
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0521437288 (paperback) |
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