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000717548 1001_ $$aPrice, Catherine,$$d1978-
000717548 24510 $$aVitamania :$$bour obsessive quest for nutritional perfection /$$cCatherine Price.
000717548 264_1 $$aNew York, New York :$$bPenguin Press,$$c2015.
000717548 300__ $$axv, 318 pages ;$$c25 cm
000717548 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000717548 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000717548 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000717548 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [255]-306) and index.
000717548 5050_ $$aHigh 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.
000717548 520__ $$a"Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better--and yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. What we don't realize is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. Yes, we need vitamins; without them, we would die. Yet despite a century of scientific research there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it's exactly how much we each require or what these thirteen dietary chemicals actually do. The one thing that experts do agree upon is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them, which have countless chemicals beyond vitamins that may be beneficial. But this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Instead, we allow marketers to use the addition of synthetic vitamins to blind us to what else in food we might be missing, leading us to accept as healthy products that we might (and should) otherwise reject. Grounded in history Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of vitamins led to today's Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we've developed with these thirteen mysterious chemicals"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000717548 650_0 $$aFood$$zUnited States$$xPsychological aspects.
000717548 650_0 $$aNutrition$$zUnited States$$xPsychological aspects.
000717548 650_0 $$aDietary supplements$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
000717548 650_0 $$aVitamins in human nutrition$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
000717548 650_0 $$aVitamins$$xHistory.
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