Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About

Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food

InÂ Vitamania,Â award-winning journalist Catherine Price takes readers on a lively journey through the past, present and future of the mysterious micronutrients known as human vitamins--an adventure that includes poison squads and political maneuvering, irradiated sheep grease and smuggled rats.Â Part history, part science, part personal exploration, Price's witty and engaging book reveals how vitamins have profoundlyÂ shaped our attitudes toward eating, and investigates the emerging science of how what we eat might affect our offspring for generations to come.

"[An]Â absorbing and meticulously researchedÂ history of the beginnings and causes of our obsession with vitamins and nutrition." --The New York Times

"Measured, funny, and fascinating. The only thing that Catherine Price is selling here is good reporting, engaging storytelling, and more than you thought you could possibly learn about vitamins. If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book."--Scientific American

"A deeply satisfying masterpiece of nutrition science writing."Â
--Network HealthÂ Dieticians' MagazineÂ (British nutritionists' journal)

"[Price's] investigation, full of scurvy-ridden sailors, questionable nutritional supplements and solid science, is both entertaining and enlightening." --Discover
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-02-24
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Format	Kindle eBook

Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food

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