Ebook: Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection
Author: Catherine Price
- Tags: HEALTH & FITNESS/Nutrition/, MEDICAL/Nutrition/, SOCIAL SCIENCE/Popular Culture/, 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, Food, Psychological aspects, Nutrition, Psychological aspects, Vitamins, Vitamins in human nutrition, Social aspects, United States
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
Vitamania Though we?ve gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we?ve lost is a crucial sense of perspective. Vitamins may be essential to our lives, but they are not the only important substances in food. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health?whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes, Read more...
Abstract: -- Vitamania Though we?ve gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we?ve lost is a crucial sense of perspective. Vitamins may be essential to our lives, but they are not the only important substances in food. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health?whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes, vitamins. And it?s our vitamin-inspired desire for effortless shortcuts that created today?s dietary supplement industry, a veritable Wild West of overpromising "miracle" substances that can be legally sold without any proof that they are effective or safe. For the countless individuals seeking to maximize their health and who consider vitamins to be the keys to well-being, Price?s -- Vitamania From the Hardcover edition