Debating Your Plate

The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients

Randi Minetor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2021
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-4408-7435-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines the most controversial foods and ingredients, providing an objective, well-balanced look at the health benefits and risks of each. It equips readers with the information they need to make their own informed decisions about what they eat.

Most people aspire to eat healthy, but what exactly does that mean? While some foods are universally acknowledged as beneficial, such as many vegetables, and others are widely condemned, such as added sugar, many foods have a more controversial reputation.

Debating Your Plate: The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients offers in-depth coverage of some of the most hotly debated items on grocery store shelves and dinner plates. Each entry provides thorough background and contextual information before examining the unique issues and controversies that surround that food or ingredient. By presenting both sides of the argument in clear, unbiased language, the book allows readers to form their own opinions about which items to include in their diet and which to avoid. On a larger scale, the book also examines why nutrition science is so prone to controversy and ambiguity, and it offers readers guidance on how to evaluate health claims for themselves.

Randi Minetor, MA, is a medical journalist with Western New York Physician magazine and the author of Greenwood's Medical Tests in Context: Innovations and Insights and Blowing Up: The Psychology of Conflict.

Introduction

Why Is Nutrition So Controversial?

The History of Food Controversies

How to Evaluate Nutrition Research and Health Claims

Foods and Ingredients

Artificial Flavorings

Artificial Food Colors

Artificial Sweeteners

Bottled Water

Caffeine

Carbonated Beverages

Carrageenan

Chocolate

Coconut Oil

Cruciferous Vegetables

Dairy Products

Eggs

Essential Oils

Farm-Raised Fish and Seafood

Fruit and Vegetables Juices

Genetically Modified Foods

Gluten

Grains

Grass-Fed Beef

Green Tea

Guar Gum

Olive Oil

Organic Foods

Phosphorus-Containing Food Additives

Plant-Based Meats

Probiotics

Raw Milk

Red Meat

Salt

Saturated Fat

Soy

Sugar Alcohols

Superfoods

Vegetable Oil

Wine

Xanthan Gum

Glossary

Directory of Resources

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4408-7435-2 / 1440874352
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-7435-2 / 9781440874352
Zustand	Neuware