You can never have too many vitamins, until they kill you. Eat meat, but avoid beef, chicken, turkey, and pork. Packaged foods are more efficiently preserved than they were 100 years ago―but should we actually eat the stuff? Consumers are besieged with conflicting messages about food and nutrition, making it difficult for the average customer to know what to believe. Is anything safe at McDonald's? Do carbohydrates cause obesity? This provocative new resource explores 15 common controversies in the field of food and nutrition.The authors explain the varying opinions and underlying issues that surround these debates, shedding new light on tensions over popular diets, fast food, and vegetarianism. Readers will gain a better understanding of these arguments and learn of the controversies surrounding lesser known topics as well, such as food irradiation, organic and imported food, vitamin supplementation, animal growth hormones, and more. Hot topics such as mad cow disease, high-protein diets, food allergies, and genetic modifications are clearly presented. This resource is perfect for high school and college students, as well as the general public.

Controversies in Food and Nutrition

Mark A. Goldstein

Myrna Chandler Goldstein

Greenwood

Superfoods are nutritional powerhouses that can boost health and immunity when they're incorporated into your daily diet. In fact, eating a wide variety of superfoods is one of the best things you can do for your health. The ten superfoods profiled and recommended in this Alive Guide have the greatest amount of scientific evidence showing that they prevent and can even help cure cancer and other diseases. All of them are low in fat and rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. Berries, broccoli and broccoli sprouts, flaxseeds, garlic, kale, mushrooms, onions, sea vegetables, soybeans and turmeric are the featured superfoods. Along with discovering the many health benefits each of these foods provide, readers learn easy, tasty recipes as well as creative ways to incorporate these foods into their daily diet.

Superfoods: Nature's Top Ten (Alive Natural Health Guides)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mark Allan Goldstein

Diets & Weight Loss

Books Alive

Integrative medicine—the practice of combining remedies from various therapeutic disciplines to optimize relief and speed healing—is transforming both how health professionals treat disease and how patients manage their own care. Your Best Medicine introduces the reader to this new world of healing options for everyday ailments like dry skin, fatigue, and indigestion as well as more serious conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. All of the treatments and techniques in Your Best Medicine have been handpicked by two practitioners—one a conventionally trained MD, the other a specialist in complementary therapies—based on established therapeutic protocols, research evidence, and clinical experience. Conventional and complementary remedies appear side by side so readers can evaluate at a glance the remedies' relative effectiveness, safety, and ease of use. Every entry in Your Best Medicine also provides important information on risk factors, symptoms, and diagnostic techniques, as well as preventive measures. Armed with this knowledge, readers can make decisions wisely and confidently at every stage of their care.

Your Best Medicine: From Conventional and Complementary Medicine--Expert-Endorsed Therapeutic Solutions to Relieve Symptoms and Speed Healing

Larry Credit

Alternative Medicine

Rodale Books

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