"This is the story of man's enduring curiosity about the way that food sustains life, and of our untiring struggle to find the vital ingredients of a healthy diet ... It is a story of heroes and villains, of scientists who risked their lives in self-experimentation, and of quack…
"Millions have died of malnutrition, caused as much by want as by ignorance of the essential requirements of the body; but more have been saved by increasingly scientific approaches to a healthy diet. Walter Gratzer tells the strange history of the science of nutrition: of the g…
"This is the story of man's enduring curiosity about the way that food sustains life, and of our untiring struggle to find the vital ingredients of a healthy diet." "It is a story of heroes and villains, of scientists who risked their lives in self-experimentation, and of quacks…
The author here offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary. The book teems with colorful personalit…
Tells the story of our struggle to recognise the connections between diet, health, and disease. This book combines the science of nutrition with a history of the fads and quackery that waylay the unwary when it comes to matters of food and health.