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Author Deutsch, Ronald M.

Title The new nuts among the berries / Ronald M. Deutsch
Published Palo Alto, Calif. : Bull Pub. Co., [1977]
©1977

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 MELB  613.2 D486N  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 359 pages ; 22 cm
Contents The magical feast -- Of cabbages and things -- Mr. Graham bakes a cracker -- Little men, little women, little food -- Water, water, everywhere -- Snap! Crackle! Enter Dr. Kellogg! -- The battles of Battle Creek -- Life along the alimentary canal -- The jungle, the sausage and the law -- Chew, chew, Horace -- The bare torso king goes public -- How to stop your cow from drooling -- Eating for the hull of it -- The drinks are on the Hauser -- Old Proteinaceous Joe or Is there sex after dinner? -- Mrs. Spratt's millions or Diet is a four-letter word -- Protomania or Richard Nixon's diet revolution -- Swing low, sweet glucose tolerance -- How to sell a vitamin -- My mother squeaked or How to write about health foods -- The red-faced confession and other tales of food cures and law -- Quick, nurse! The bean sprouts! -- Meanwhile, back at the organic ranch -- Organic politics or Gloria Swanson goes to Washington -- How the poison gets into your health food
Summary With humor and style, Ronald Deutsch tells the story of food faddists in America -- all the nutty people who have exploited our desire for better health and our limited understanding of nutrition. A total revision of the 1961 Nuts Among the Berries that sold 3 million copies. - Back cover
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 341-349
Subject Diet in disease.
Food habits -- South America -- Case studies.
Food habits -- United States.
Food habits.
Food preferences -- United States.
Nutrition -- United States.
Nutrition.
Diet Fads.
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
Nutrition
Nutrition
Genre/Form Popular Work.
Case studies.
LC no. 77070401
ISBN 0915950081
091595009X (paperback)
Other Titles Nuts among the berries