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Preface | |
Introduction 'What are we supposed to eat?' | |
Part I. Deciding What to Have for Dinner: 1. Meeting nutrient needs from food: the simple nutrition truths | |
2. Alternative eating styles - the vegetarian diet | |
Part II. The Nutrients: What They Do: 3. Extracting nutrients from food: digestion and absorption | |
4. The major nutrients - carbohydrate, fat and protein | |
5. Vitamins | |
6. Minerals | |
7. Fiber: a nutritional enigma | |
Part III. Foods: 8. Conventional versus 'organic' food production methods: assessment of cost-to-benefit ratio | |
9. Food laws: avoiding the chicanery of yesteryears | |
10. Food processing and additives: between farm and table | |
11. Foods with reputations - the good, the bad and the ugly | |
Part IV. Nutrition and Health: 12. What nutrition can and cannot do for you | |
13. Weight control | |
14. Diet and heart disease | |
15. Diet and cancer | |
16. Nutrition, chronic diseases and the quality of life | |
Index. |
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