What to Eat
ISBN: 9780865477384 | 0865477388
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: North Point Press
Pub. Date: 4/17/2007
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Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle's "What to Eat "has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "radiant with maxims to live by" in "The New York Times Book Review "and "accessible, reliable and comprehensive" in "The Washington Post," "What to Eat "is an indispensable resource, packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist who "has become to the food industry what . . . Ralph Nader [was] to the automobile industry" ("St. Louis Post-D... MORE
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate | p. 17 |
| The Produce Section | |
| Fruits and Vegetables: The Price of Fresh | p. 25 |
| Organics: Hype or Hope | p. 37 |
| Produce: Safe at Any Price | p. 46 |
| Genetically Modified, Irradiated, and Politicized | p. 56 |
| The Dairy Section | |
| Milk and More Milk | p. 67 |
| Milk: Subject to Deb... MORE | p. 80 |
| Dairy Foods: The Raw and the Cooked | p. 91 |
| Yogurt: Health Food or Dessert | p. 99 |
| The Dairy Substitutes | |
| Margarine: Accept No Substitutes | p. 108 |
| Margarine: You Can Believe It's Not Butter | p. 118 |
| Soy Milk: Panacea, or Just Another Food | p. 127 |
| The Meat Section | |
| A Range of Meaty Issues | p. 138 |
| Meat: Questions of Safety | p. 151 |
| Meat: Organic Versus "Natural" | p. 165 |
| The Fish Counter | |
| Fish: Dilemmas and Quandaries | p. 181 |
| Fish: The Methylmercury Dilemma | p. 190 |
| The Fish-Farming Dilemma | p. 203 |
| The Fish-Labeling Quandaries | p. 218 |
| More Seafood Dilemmas: Safety and Sustainability | p. 234 |
| The Center Aisles: Cool and Frozen | |
| Eggs: The "Incredible" Edibles | p. 248 |
| Eggs and the Salmonella Problem | p. 264 |
| Frozen Foods: Decoding Ingredient Lists | p. 274 |
| A Digression into Calories and Diets | p. 282 |
| Frozen Foods: Reading Nutrition Facts | p. 296 |
| The Center Aisles: Processed | |
| Processed Foods: Wheat Flour and the Glycemic Index | p. 305 |
| Sugar(s) | p. 317 |
| Cereals: Sweet and Supposedly Healthy | p. 335 |
| Packaged Foods: Health Endorsements | p. 350 |
| Snack Foods: Sweet, Salty, and Caloric | p. 357 |
| Foods Just for Kids | p. 370 |
| Oils: Fat and More Fat | p. 385 |
| The Beverage Aisles | |
| Water, Water Everywhere: Bottled and Not | p. 401 |
| "Healthy" Drinks: Sugared and Artificially Sweetened | p. 416 |
| Teas and Coffees: Caffeine to Eco-Labels | p. 435 |
| The Special Sections | |
| Infant Formula and Baby Food | p. 451 |
| Supplements and Health Food | p. 466 |
| Bread: The Bakery | p. 481 |
| Prepared Foods: Salads and More | p. 497 |
| Conclusion: Taking Action | p. 510 |
| Food Measures: Conversion Factors | p. 527 |
| Terms Used to Describe Fats and Oils in Foods | p. 529 |
| Notes | p. 533 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 589 |
| Index | p. 591 |
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Marion Nestle is the most respected nutritionist in America today. Her book Food Politics was given the James Beard Award, the top award for food writing; that book and its follow-up, Safe Food, are backlist classics for the University of California Press. A longtime nutritionist and former head of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, Nestle lectures worldwide and was featured in the movie Super Size Me. A native New Yorker, she raised her family in California and now lives in Greenwich Village.
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