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Explores the most controversial issues concerning food and nutrition today, from mad cow disease and the latest E.coli scare to bottled water and genetically enhanced food.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Antioxidants
Bottled Water
Fast Food
Fats
Fish
Food Labeling
Genetically Engineered Dairy Products
Genetically Modified Foods
Hidden Ingredients
Imported Food
Life-Enhancing/Life-Threatening Foods
Not Just Cows Milk
Organic Foods
Popular Diets
Raw Food
Vegetarian and Vegan Diets

About the Author

Myrna Chandler Goldstein has been a freelance writer and independent scholar for two decades. Her website is Doing Good, While Doing Business: Support Socially Responsible Companies (www.changethemold.com). She is the author of Boys into Men, Controversies in Food and Nutrition and Controversies in the Practice of Medicine with Greenwood Press.

Mark A. Goldstein, MD, is Chief, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Chief of Adolescent Programs at Newton Wellesley Hospital.

Reviews

This is an unbiased, evenhanded introductory discussion of 16 food-related subjects—ranging from antioxidants, various diets, and fats to food labeling, genetically modified/engineered foods, and life-enhancing/life-threatening foods.
*Library Journal*

This reference guide for general readers, students and scholars of food and nutrition studies concentrates on 16 controversies that range from the relationship between food inspection standards and food poisoning outbreaks to reaching a consensus about healthy diets. Myrna Goldstein, an author who specializes in health issues, has teamed with Mark Goldstein (Chief, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital) to investigate all viewpoints for such nutrition-related topics as the value of antioxidants, the dangers of fast food, food labeling and the effectiveness of many popular diets. Each chapter includes a conclusion from the authors, topics for further discussion and extensive reference and resources.
*SciTech Book News*