- The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals / by Pollan, Michael.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-435) and index.- Subjects: Food habits.; Food preferences.;
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- Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / by Nestle, Marion.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-438) and index.Introduction: the food industry and "eat more". Undermining dietary advice. From "eat more" to "eat less," 1900-1990 -- Politics versus science: opposing the food pyramid, 1991-1992 -- "Deconstructing" dietary advice -- Working the system. Influencing government: food lobbies and lobbyists -- Co-opting nutrition professionals -- Winning friends, disarming critics -- Playing hardball: legal and not -- Exploiting kids, corrupting schools. Starting early: underage consumers -- Pushing soft drinks: "pouring rights" -- Deregulating dietary supplements. Science versus supplements:"a gulf of mutual incomprehension" -- Making health claims legal: the supplement industry's war with the FDA -- Deregulation and its consequences -- Inventing techno-foods. Go forth and fortify -- Beyond fortification: making foods functional -- Selling the ultimate techno-food: olestra.- Subjects: Nutrition policy; Food; Food industry and trade;
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- In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / by
Pollan, Michael.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-228) and index.The age of nutritionism. From foods to nutrients ; Nutritionism defined ; Nutritionism comes to market ; Food science's golden age ; The melting of the lipid hypothesis ; Eat right, get fatter ; Beyond the pleasure principle ; The proof in the low-fat pudding ; Bad science ; Nutritionism's children -- The Western diet and the diseases of civilization. The Aborigine in all of us ; The elephant in the room ; The industrialization of eating : what we do know. From whole foods to refined -- From complexity to simplicity -- From quality to quantity -- From leaves to seeds -- From food culture to food science -- Getting over nutritionism. Escape from the Western diet ; Eat food : food defined ; Mostly plants : what to eat ; Not too much : how to eat."Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach.--From publisher description.- Subjects: Nutrition.; Food habits.;
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- Plenty : one man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally / by
Smith, Alisa,
1971-
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MacKinnon, J. B.
(James Bernard),
1970-
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- Subjects: Diet; Cookery (Natural foods); Farm produce; Smith, Alisa, 1971-; MacKinnon, J. B. (James Bernard), 1970-;
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© c2007., Harmony Books,
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- Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life / by
Kingsolver, Barbara.
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Hopp, Steven L.,
1954-
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Kingsolver, Camille,
1987-
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- When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed, starting with dirt, seeds, and enough knowledge to muddle through. Or starting with baby animals, and enough sense to refrain from naming them."--From publisher description.
- Subjects: Farm life; Country life; Agriculture; Food habits; Kingsolver, Barbara.; Hopp, Steven L., 1954-;
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- Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal / by
Schlosser, Eric.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-361) and index.American way: The founding fathers. Your trusted friends. Behind the counter. Success -- Meat and potatoes: Why the fries taste good. On the range. Cogs in the great machine. The most dangerous job. What's in the meat . Global realization -- Epilogue: Have it your way -- Afterword: The meaning of mad cow.- Subjects: Fast food restaurants; Food industry and trade; Convenience foods;
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