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A grain of salt : the science and pseudoscience of what we eat / Dr. Joe Schwarcz.

Schwarcz, Joe, (author.).

Summary:

"Eating has become a confusing experience. Should we follow a keto diet? Is sugar the next tobacco? Does fermented cabbage juice cure disease? Are lectins toxic? Is drinking poppy seed tea risky? What's with probiotics? Can packaging contaminate food? Should our nuts be activated? What is cockroach milk? We all have questions, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz has the answers, some of which will astonish you. Guaranteed to satisfy your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz separates fact from fiction in this collection of new and updated articles about what to eat, what not to eat, and how to recognize the scientific basis of food chemistry."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781770414754
  • ISBN: 1770414754
  • Physical Description: 303 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Fruits of the internet -- What's for dinner? -- Chrono nutrition -- Advise about food is sometimes half-baked -- Dining on liquid gold -- Some beefs with beef -- Count your way to good health -- Beating the odds with beets -- Swallowing blueberries, apples, and hype -- Fiber and graham -- Keto surprises -- The much-maligned egg -- Putrid intestinal guck? -- Microbes in the gut -- A culture lesson -- The pros of probiotics questioned -- Eat like the hadza -- The good of the gods -- Pond scum for health? -- Cockroach milk -- Hot dog follies -- About that French paradox -- Sugar's effects are not so sweet -- Taxing sugar -- Sugar and the brain -- How splendid is splenda? -- Tom Brady's alkaline twaddle -- Silly Jilly -- The dirt on clean eating -- Medical medium -- Spare me the wheatgrass enzymes -- Raw water nonsense -- Soured on lemon juice -- Matcha and maca -- The saga of kosher coke -- FCKD up is gone. Good riddance. -- Poppy seed tea -- Activated nuts -- Are lectins nutritional criminals? -- Weight loss supplements -- Antioxidant hoopla -- Mystery of the green bread -- Butchering science -- Food wraps -- It's in the can! -- Moscow mule -- Tilapia and the poop connection -- Jellyfish protein and brain function -- Hawking brain supplements -- Advanced glycation end products -- Sniffing for fenugreek efects -- Questioning phosphates -- A tale of two cantaloupes -- Confrontation with E. coli is a nasty business -- Smoked meat -- THe secret life of bagels -- Oh, that gluten! -- An ode to the oat -- I'm a bread and propionates man -- Agitate for ice cream -- Turkish ice cream is bad news for orchids -- Say "cheese" -- Chew on this -- Thinking about Coconut oil -- What's in a vitamin name? -- Man cannnot live on corn alone -- Lessons from Popeye -- Dietary supplements : to take or not to take? -- The cold facts about vitamin C -- Free radicals bad, antioxidants good : is that so? -- To label or not to label, that is the question! -- Scientists smell a rat in French GMO rat study -- From twitching worms to non-browning apples -- The saga of golden rice -- An antidote to the poisonous tomato legend -- Organic agriculture -- Pesticide problems -- The evolution of herbicides -- Science by petition -- A grain of salt -- The no conclusion conclusion.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic formats.
Subject: Food > Miscellanea.
Diet > Miscellanea.
Food habits > Miscellanea.
Food > Popular works.
Diet > Popular works.
Food habits > Popular works.

Available copies

  • 7 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tumbler Ridge Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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