Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection / Catherine Price.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781594205040 (hardback)
- Physical Description: xv, 318 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
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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. |
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Lower Macungie Library | 612.399 PRI (Text) | 33400001263097 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Southern Lehigh Public Library | 612.399 PRI (Text)
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This item was purchased in honor of Gerald & Judith Grim for their donation to the Southern Lehigh Public Library Helping Hands Campaign 2014-2015.
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