Taking the Fear Out of Eating

By John Allred and Charlette Gallagher

Book Overview

Nutrition has become a hot topic, in the media as well at the market place. But how much of the information given to the consumer is hype and how much is accurate? In Taking the Fear out of Eating, published in 1993, two established scientists have distilled the information from thousands of scientific studies into a succinct, easily read description of what is known, what is merely suspected and, equally important, what is not known, about nutrition and how food choices might affect health. The book takes a hard look at both sides of the controversy about the connection between food and health, with particular emphasis on diet and the chronic diseases of cancer and heart disease. Food is, of course, essential to our survival but our food supply is often portrayed as dangerous - loaded with additives, pesticides, salt, sugar, fat and cholesterol. Taking the Fear out of Eating puts these topics into perspective in an authoritative and entertaining manner. It is not intended as a 'self-help' book but rather as a means to make the reader a participating partner with health professionals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521437288
• ISBN13: 9780521437288
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Truth as it is !

This book enligthened me about the issues regarding realtionships between food/diet and health. It simply states what we know, what we do not know about food and health. It clarifies issues regarding foods, health, diet, diseases etc, by just simply discussing the evidence from original research. Every chapter start with a very nice and funny introduction, I honestly laughed a lot.What evidence do we have for widespread unscientific loads of information. It goes on details of some the myths, imagined truths, about war on cholesterol, war on fat, organic, etc. If you want to know what are these all about and get the bottom of it from J. Allread, a well respected expert in human nutrition, this book is a tereasure for you to uncover.