| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Contents |
About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Introduction; 1 High Seas and Hi-C; 2 Plants and Plants; 3 Death by Deficiency; 4 The Journey into Food; 5 From A to Zeitgeist; 6 Nutritional Blindness; 7 From Pure Food to Pure Chaos; 8 The People's Pills; 9 Foods with Benefits; 10 The Nutritional Frontier; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendix A; Appendix B; RDA Chart; Notes |
| Summary |
The startling story of our devotion to vitamins - and how it keeps us from good health. Health-conscious Australians seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better - and yet, despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead, we outsource our questions to experts, and interpret 'vitamin' as shorthand for 'health'. However, despite a century of scientific research, there is little consensus among experts around e |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 16, 2015) |
| Subject |
Vitamins in human nutrition -- Social aspects -- United States
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Food habits -- Social aspects -- United States
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Vitamins in human nutrition -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Health
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Science & Technology
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Social Science
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925113693 |
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1925113698 |
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