描述
ISBN: 9780190846633
- Provides an overview of fundamental nutrition concepts relevant for health, weight, longevity, and disease prevention by explaining the roles of key nutrients, foods, and beverages
- Tackles popular food and nutrition topics and buzzwords and debunks myths by examining the scientific evidence behind each and challenging readers to eschew junk and anti-science
- Examines the relationship between humans, food, and the environment across time and space by considering how and what we eat, from our prehistoric Paleo days to the twenty-first century
- Discusses contemporary food and nutrition problems affecting both people and planet, why they exist, and how they might be solved
- Presents a rich framework for considering the inter-relationships between science, technology, and consumer that, together, shape what and how we eat
- Highlights cutting-edge nutrition research illustrating how, when it comes to health-giving diets, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- and one size doesn't fit all
Net weight: 0.336kg