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Price, Catherine, 1978-
Subjects
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.
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Vitamania : our obse...
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Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection / Catherine Price.
by
Price, Catherine, 1978-
Subjects
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.
Publisher Info:
New York, New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Description:
xv, 318 pages ; 25 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9781594205040 (hardback) :
1594205043 (hardback)
Contents:
High seas and Hi-C
--
Plants and plants
--
Death by deficiency
--
The journey into food
--
From A to Zeitgeist
--
Nutritional blindness
--
From pure food to pure chaos
--
The people's pills
--
Foods with benefits
--
The nutritional frontier
--
Appendix A. The
vitamins
--
Appendix B. Abbreviations and definitions
--
Recommended dietary allowances chart.
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Summary:
"The startling story of America's devotion to vitamins-and how it keeps us from good health Health-conscious Americans seek out
vitamins
any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, 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." What we don't realize-and what Vitamania reveals-is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. Yes, we need
vitamins
; without them, we would die. Yet despite a century of scientific research (the word "vitamin" was coined only in 1912), there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it's exactly how much we each require or what these thirteen dietary chemicals actually do. The one thing that experts do agree upon is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them, which have countless chemicals beyond
vitamins
that may be beneficial. But thanks to our love of processed foods (whose natural
vitamins
and other chemicals have often been removed or destroyed), this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Instead, we allow marketers to use the addition of synthetic
vitamins
to blind us to what else in food we might be missing, leading us to accept as healthy products that we might (and should) otherwise reject. Grounded in history-but firmly oriented toward the future-Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of
vitamins
led to today's Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we've developed with these thirteen mysterious chemicals. In so doing, Vitamania both demolishes many of our society's most cherished myths about
nutrition
and challenges us to reevaluate our own beliefs. Impressively researched, counterintuitive, and engaging, Vitamania won't just change the way you think about
vitamins
. It will change the way you think about food. "
--
"Health-conscious Americans seek out
vitamins
any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, 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. What we don't realize is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. Yes, we need
vitamins
; without them, we would die. Yet despite a century of scientific research there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it's exactly how much we each require or what these thirteen dietary chemicals actually do. The one thing that experts do agree upon is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them, which have countless chemicals beyond
vitamins
that may be beneficial. But this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Instead, we allow marketers to use the addition of synthetic
vitamins
to blind us to what else in food we might be missing, leading us to accept as healthy products that we might (and should) otherwise reject. Grounded in history Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of
vitamins
led to today's Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we've developed with these thirteen mysterious chemicals"
--
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