An edition of The new nuts among the berries (1977)

The new nuts among the berries

how nutrition nonsense captured America

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An edition of The new nuts among the berries (1977)

The new nuts among the berries

how nutrition nonsense captured America

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With humor and style, Ronald Deutsch tells the story of food faddists in America -- all the nutty people who have exploited our desire for better health and our limited understanding of nutrition. A total revision of the 1961 Nuts Among the Berries that sold 3 million copies. - Back cover.

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Publisher
Bull Pub. Co.
Language
English
Pages
359

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Table of Contents

The magical feast
Of cabbages and things
Mr. Graham bakes a cracker
Little men, little women, little food
Water, water, everywhere
Snap! Crackle! Enter Dr. Kellogg!
The battles of Battle Creek
Life along the alimentary canal
The jungle, the sausage and the law
Chew, chew, Horace
The bare torso king goes public
How to stop your cow from drooling
Eating for the hull of it
The drinks are on the Hauser
Old Proteinaceous Joe or Is there sex after dinner?
Mrs. Spratt's millions or Diet is a four-letter word
Protomania or Richard Nixon's diet revolution
Swing low, sweet glucose tolerance
How to sell a vitamin
My mother squeaked or How to write about health foods
The red-faced confession and other tales of food cures and law
Quick, nurse! The bean sprouts!
Meanwhile, back at the organic ranch
Organic politics or Gloria Swanson goes to Washington
How the poison gets into your health food

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 341-349.
Includes index.
Subtitle from cover.

Published in
Palo Alto, CA
Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
613.2
Library of Congress
RM217 .D39

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 359 p.
Number of pages
359
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4560005M
Internet Archive
newnutsamongberr0000deut
ISBN 10
0915950081, 091595009X
ISBN 13
9780915950089, 9780915950096
LCCN
77070401
Library Thing
87239
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
5026924
1721393

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