Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780865477384
- 9780865477049
- 0865477388
- 0865477043
Edition: First edition.
Description: ix, 611 pages
Notes:
- Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-587), Internet addresses and index.
Contents:
- PRODUCE SECTION: Fruits & vegetables: the price of fresh
- Organics: hype or hope
- Produce: safe at any price
- Genetically modified, irradiated, and politicized
- DAIR SECTION: Milk and more milk: subject to debate
- Dairy foods: raw and cooked
- Yogurt: health food or dessert
- DAIRY SUBSTITUTES: Margarine: accept no substitutes
- You CAN believe it's not butter
- Soy milk: panacea or just another food
- MEAT SECTION: A range of meaty issues
- Questions of safety
- Organic vs. "natural"
- FISH COUNTER: Dilemmas and quandaries
- The methylmercury dilemma
- The fish-farming dilemma
- The fish-labeling dilemma
- Safely and sustainability
- CENTER AISLES: COOL AND FROZEN: Eggs: the "incredible" edibles
- Eggs and the salmonella problem
- Frozen foods: decoding ingredients
- A digression into calories and diets
- Frozen foods: reading nutrition facts
- CENTER AISLES: PROCESSED: Wheat flour and the glycemic index
- Sugars
- Cereals: sweet and supposedly healthy
- Packaged foods: health endorsements
- Snack foods: sweet, salty, and caloric
- Foods just for kids
- Oils: fat and more fat
- BEVEAGE AISLE: Water everywhere: bottled and not
- "Healthy" drinks: sugared and artificially sweetened
- Teas and coffees: caffeine to eco-labels
- SPECIAL SECTIONS: Infant formula and baby food
- Supplements & health food
- Bread: the bakery
- Prepared foods: salads and more
- Tacking action
- Conversion tables
- Terms used to describe fats in oils and foods.
LCCN: 2006007886
Control Number: 135751
Publisher: New York : North Point Press, 2006.Subjects: