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Debating Your Plate

The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients

by Randi Minetor
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This book examines the most controversial foods and ingredients, providing an objective, well-balanced look at the health benefits and risks of each. It equips readers with the information they need to make their own informed decisions about what they eat.
Most people aspire to eat healthy, but what exactly does that mean? While some foods are universally acknowledged as beneficial, such as many vegetables, and others are widely condemned, such as added sugar, many foods have a more controversial reputation.
Debating Your Plate: The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients offers in-depth coverage of some of the most hotly debated items on grocery store shelves and dinner plates. Each entry provides thorough background and contextual information before examining the unique issues and controversies that surround that food or ingredient. By presenting both sides of the argument in clear, unbiased language, the book allows readers to form their own opinions about which items to include in their diet and which to avoid. On a larger scale, the book also examines why nutrition science is so prone to controversy and ambiguity, and it offers readers guidance on how to evaluate health claims for themselves.

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    November 5, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9798216072430

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      • ISBN: 9798216072430
      • File size: 2098 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from February 1, 2022

      Acknowledging that food controversies can be traced back to ancient Greece, medical journalist Minetor (Greenwood's Medical Tests in Context: Innovations and Insights) analyzes the ins and outs of contemporary nutrition science in the U.S.--why it's prone to ambiguity; how the results of scientific research can be skewed--and explains how to analyze scientific studies. Minetor illustrates changes in Americans' diets over time and discusses the history of nutrition science, nutrition standards, relationships between food and illness, social changes (e.g., women working outside the home; fad diets), and the food industry's ability to slant the results of research to promote their own products (in the 1960s, for instance, sugar producers funded their own scientific study). The most helpful chapter focuses on evaluating nutrition research and health claims and offers tips for identifying research distortion. Alphabetically organized entries tackle subjects like artificial additives (flavorings, colors, sweeteners), bottled water, caffeine, chocolate, cruciferous vegetables, essential oils, genetically modified foods, and superfoods. Each entry includes historical context and discusses controversies and debates (on, for instance, the value of gluten-free diets for all), in clear, straightforward language. Chapters include bibliographies, and the volume has a glossary, a directory of resources, and a detailed index. Unlike most other works on food and diet controversies, which tend to focus on a single aspect (e.g., meat; ethical issues), Minetor's balanced, simple, informative book is wide-ranging, making it invaluable. VERDICT A strong updated complement to Myrna Chandler Goldstein and Mark A. Goldstein's Food and Nutrition Controversies Today. Minetor encourages readers to make up their own minds on nutrition, food science, and marketing.--Laurie Selwyn

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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