Bibliograph

Something to chew on, challenging controversies in food and health, Mike Gibney

Type

Label

Something to chew on, challenging controversies in food and health, Mike Gibney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Something to chew on

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

775075529

Responsibility statement

Mike Gibney

Sub title

challenging controversies in food and health

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.", --from the publisher

Table Of 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

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