Terrors of the table : the curious history of nutrition / Walter Gratzer.
The author here offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary. The book teems with colorful personalities, a veritable who...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The ravages of war
- 2. The scurvy wars
- 3. In the beginning
- 4. Dawn of the scientific age : the road to the scaffold
- 5. The savants' disputes
- 6. The poor, the rich, the healthy, and the sick
- 7. Cheats and poisoners
- 8. Paradigm postponed : the tardy arrival of vitamins
- 9. The quarry run to Earth
- 10. Fads and quacks
- 11. The new millennium : profits and the higher quackery
- App. The hard science.