A grain of salt : the science and pseudoscience of what we eat
Record details
- ISBN: 1770414754
- ISBN: 9781770414754
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Physical Description:
303 pages ; 21 cm
print - 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. |
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Subject: | Food -- Miscellanea Diet -- Miscellanea Food habits -- Miscellanea Food -- Popular works Diet -- Popular works Food habits -- Popular works |
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Tumbler Ridge Public Library | ANF 641.3 SCHWA (Text) | TRL27963 | Entertaining Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |