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Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection  Cover Image Book Book

Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection / Catherine Price.

Summary:

Delves into the big business of synthetic vitamins and dietary supplements and uncovers the truths about the long-held nutritional myths the industry has been championing for the past century.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594205040 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: xv, 318 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-306) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
High seas and Hi-C -- Plants and plants -- Death by deficiency -- The journey into food -- From A to Zeitgeist -- Nutritional blindness -- From pure food to pure chaos -- The people's pills -- Foods with benefits -- The nutritional frontier -- Appendix A. The vitamins -- Appendix B. Abbreviations and definitions -- Recommended dietary allowances chart.
Subject: 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.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lower Macungie Library 612.399 PRI (Text) 33400001263097 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Southern Lehigh Public Library 612.399 PRI (Text)
Bookplate: This item was purchased in honor of Gerald & Judith Grim for their donation to the Southern Lehigh Public Library Helping Hands Campaign 2014-2015.
30044100672874 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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