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Genre/Form: | Popular works Popular Work Popular Works |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Marion Nestle |
ISBN: | 0865477043 9780865477049 9780865477384 0865477388 |
OCLC Number: | 64688551 |
Description: | ix, 611 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The supermarket: prime real estate -- THE PRODUCE SECTION : -- Fruits and vegetables: the price of fresh -- Organics: hype or hope -- Produce: safe at any price -- Genetically modified, irradiated, and politicized ; -- THE DAIRY SECTION : -- Milk and more milk -- Milk: subject to debate -- Dairy foods: the raw and the cooked -- Yogurt: health food or dessert ; -- THE DAIRY SUBSTITUTES : -- Margarine: accept no substitutes -- Margarine: you CAN believe it's not butter -- Soy milk: panacea or just another food ; -- THE MEAT SECTION : -- A range of meaty issues -- Meat: questions of safety -- Meat: organic versus "natural" ; -- THE FISH COUNTER : -- Fish: dilemmas and quandaries -- Fish: the methylmercury dilemma -- The fish-farming dilemma -- The fish-labeling dilemma -- More seafood dilemmas: safety and sustainability ; -- THE CENTER AISLES: COOL AND FROZEN : -- Eggs: the "incredible" edibles -- Eggs and the salmonella problem -- Frozen foods: decoding ingredient lists -- A digression into calories and diets -- Frozen foods: reading nutrition facts ; -- THE CENTER AISLES: PROCESSED : -- Processed foods: wheat flour and the glycemic index -- Sugar(s) -- Cereals: sweet and supposedly healthy -- Packaged foods: health endorsements -- Snack foods: sweet, salty, and caloric -- Foods just for kids -- Oils: fat and more fat ; -- THE BEVERAGE AISLES : -- Water, water everywhere: bottled and not -- "Healthy" drinks: sugared and artificially sweetened -- Teas and coffees: caffeine to eco-labels ; -- THE SPECIAL SECTIONS : -- Infant formula and baby food -- Supplements and health food -- Bread: the bakery -- Prepared foods: salads and more -- Conclusion: taking action ; -- Appendix 1: Food measures: conversion factors -- Appendix 2: Terms used to describe fats and oils in foods. |
Responsibility: | Marion Nestle. |
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"Meticulously researched, thorough, and indispensable - Marion Nestle's "What to Eat" delivers on its title. It's a reliable, riveting guide to the amazing truth about what we're sold by the American food distribution system. Refreshingly rigorous and fun to read." --Alice Waters, founder and proprietor of Chez Panisse and author of "The Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook," "The industry wants you to believe there are no good foods or bad foods. Well, that's not true. And I can't think of anyone who knows thedifference better than Marion Nestle." --Eric Schlosser When it comes to the increasingly treacherous landscape of the American supermarket, with its marketing hype and competing health claims, Marion Nestle is an absolutely indispensable guide: knowledgeable, eminently sane--and wonderful company, too. --Michael Pollan Read more...


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