The Resource Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health, Mike Gibney
Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health, Mike Gibney
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- Summary
- "'Something to Chew On' is an informative and entertaining book which covers from a scientific point of view all of the worldwide controversies dominating the popular press in relation to the safety and wholesomeness of the modern food chain. It deals with the topics of organic food, GM foods, obesity, growing old, the integrity of food research, global warming, global malnutrition, consumer perception of food-bourne risk, our gut bacteria, and how nutrition during pregnancy primes us for health in later life. Each chapter presens multiple arguments and comes to a well-supported conclusion. Mike Gibney provides interesting examples, reports and stories from many countries."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 178 pages
- Contents
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- With regard to food
- Sugar and spice and all things nasty
- Modified foods: genetic or atomic?
- The metrics of food and health
- Personalised nutrition: fitting into your genes
- Plastic babies: the phenomenon of epigenetics
- Your inside is out: food, the gut and health
- A tsunami of lard: the global epidemic of obesity
- Greying matters
- Food and health: the science, policy and politics
- My food, your poison: who sees what in food?
- How the other half dies
- Mankind and mother earth
- Projections and reflections
- Isbn
- 9781906359676
- Label
- Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health
- Title
- Something to chew on
- Title remainder
- challenging controversies in food and health
- Statement of responsibility
- Mike Gibney
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "'Something to Chew On' is an informative and entertaining book which covers from a scientific point of view all of the worldwide controversies dominating the popular press in relation to the safety and wholesomeness of the modern food chain. It deals with the topics of organic food, GM foods, obesity, growing old, the integrity of food research, global warming, global malnutrition, consumer perception of food-bourne risk, our gut bacteria, and how nutrition during pregnancy primes us for health in later life. Each chapter presens multiple arguments and comes to a well-supported conclusion. Mike Gibney provides interesting examples, reports and stories from many countries."
- Assigning source
- --from the publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gibney, Michael J
- Dewey number
- 616.02/7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA601
- LC item number
- .G536 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- RA601
- NAL item number
- .G536 2012
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WA 695
- NLM item number
- G447s 2012
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Food supply
- Genetic engineering
- Public health
- Food
- Nutrition
- Food
- Food supply
- Genetic engineering
- Nutrition
- Public health
- Food, Genetically Modified
- Label
- Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health, Mike Gibney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- With regard to food -- Sugar and spice and all things nasty -- Modified foods: genetic or atomic? -- The metrics of food and health -- Personalised nutrition: fitting into your genes -- Plastic babies: the phenomenon of epigenetics -- Your inside is out: food, the gut and health -- A tsunami of lard: the global epidemic of obesity -- Greying matters -- Food and health: the science, policy and politics -- My food, your poison: who sees what in food? -- How the other half dies -- Mankind and mother earth -- Projections and reflections
- Control code
- ocn775075529
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9781906359676
- Lccn
- 2012405919
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781906359676
- (OCoLC)775075529
- Label
- Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health, Mike Gibney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- With regard to food -- Sugar and spice and all things nasty -- Modified foods: genetic or atomic? -- The metrics of food and health -- Personalised nutrition: fitting into your genes -- Plastic babies: the phenomenon of epigenetics -- Your inside is out: food, the gut and health -- A tsunami of lard: the global epidemic of obesity -- Greying matters -- Food and health: the science, policy and politics -- My food, your poison: who sees what in food? -- How the other half dies -- Mankind and mother earth -- Projections and reflections
- Control code
- ocn775075529
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9781906359676
- Lccn
- 2012405919
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781906359676
- (OCoLC)775075529
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