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Price, Catherine, 1978-
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Vitamins in human nutrition -- Social aspects -- United States.
Dietary supplements -- Social aspects -- United States.
Nutrition -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Food -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Vitamins -- History.
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Price, Catherine, 1978-
Vitamins in human nutrition -- Social aspects -- United States.
Dietary supplements -- Social aspects -- United States.
Nutrition -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Food -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Vitamins -- History.
MARC Display
Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection / Catherine Price.
by
Price, Catherine, 1978-
Penguin Press, c2015.
Call #:
612.399 P945v
Subjects
Vitamins
in human nutrition
--
Social aspects
--
United States.
Dietary supplements
--
Social aspects
--
United States.
Nutrition
--
United States
--
Psychological aspects.
Food
--
United States
--
Psychological aspects.
Vitamins
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780143108153 (pbk.)
Description:
xv, 318 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Most of us know nothing about
vitamins
. What’s more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. By focusing on
vitamins
at the expense of everything else, we’ve become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that
vitamins
are an absolute good—and the more of them, the better—vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. In Vitamania, award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about
vitamins
, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health. When
vitamins
were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. Yet it wasn’t long before
vitamins
spread from labs of scientists into the realm of food marketers and began to take on a life of their own. The era of “vitamania,” as one 1940s journalist called it, had begun. Though we’ve gained much from our embrace of
vitamins
, what we’ve lost is a crucial sense of perspective. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health—whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes,
vitamins
. And it’s our vitamin-inspired desire for effortless shortcuts that created today’s dietary supplement industry, a veritable Wild West of overpromising “miracle” substances that can be legally sold without any proof that they are effective or safe. Price’s travels to vitamin manufacturers and food laboratories and military testing kitchens—along with her deep dive into the
history
of nutritional science— provide a witty and dynamic narrative arc that binds Vitamania together. The result is a page-turning exploration of the
history
, science, hype, and future of nutrition. And her ultimate message is both inspiring and straightforward: given all that we don’t know about
vitamins
and nutrition, the best way to decide what to eat is to stop obsessing and simply embrace this uncertainty head-on."--From publisher.
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