What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENK) | Health & Medical
Food and Nutrition
ISBN: 9780190846633
Series: What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENK)
Food and Nutrition (Health & Medical)
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9780190846633 (10-digit ISBN: 0190846631)
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- Provides an overview of fundamental nutrition concepts relevant for health, weight, longevity, and disease prevention by explaining the roles of key nutrients, foods, and beverages
- Tackles popular food and nutrition topics and buzzwords and debunks myths by examining the scientific evidence behind each and challenging readers to eschew junk and anti-science
- Examines the relationship between humans, food, and the environment across time and space by considering how and what we eat, from our prehistoric Paleo days to the twenty-first century
- Discusses contemporary food and nutrition problems affecting both people and planet, why they exist, and how they might be solved
- Presents a rich framework for considering the inter-relationships between science, technology, and consumer that, together, shape what and how we eat
- Highlights cutting-edge nutrition research illustrating how, when it comes to health-giving diets, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts — and one size doesn't fit all
From gluten-free to all-Paleo, GMOs to grass-fed beef, our newsfeeds abound with nutrition advice. Whether sensational headlines from the latest study or anecdotes from celebrities and food bloggers, we're bombarded with superfoods and best ever diets promising to help us lose weight, fight disease, and live longer. At the same time, we live in an over-crowded food environment that makes it easy to eat, all the time.
The perfect primer for complex current event issues and countries…
Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENTK) series offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries, spanning across popular topics and disciplines including Politics, Economics, Sciences, and Religion. WENTKs are written by leading experts in their fields and provide, in a straight-forward question-and-answer format, insight in such a way that students and scholars alike can stay up-to-date on the most important topics leading the discussion today in politics, health, global affairs, and more.
Please note: As this series is not ELT material, these titles are not subject to discount.
From gluten-free to all-Paleo, GMOs to grass-fed beef, our newsfeeds abound with nutrition advice. Whether sensational headlines from the latest study or anecdotes from celebrities and food bloggers, we're bombarded with superfoods and best ever diets promising to help us lose weight, fight disease, and live longer. At the same time, we live in an over-crowded food environment that makes it easy to eat, all the time.
- Provides an overview of fundamental nutrition concepts relevant for health, weight, longevity, and disease prevention by explaining the roles of key nutrients, foods, and beverages
- Tackles popular food and nutrition topics and buzzwords and debunks myths by examining the scientific evidence behind each and challenging readers to eschew junk and anti-science
- Examines the relationship between humans, food, and the environment across time and space by considering how and what we eat, from our prehistoric Paleo days to the twenty-first century
- Discusses contemporary food and nutrition problems affecting both people and planet, why they exist, and how they might be solved
- Presents a rich framework for considering the inter-relationships between science, technology, and consumer that, together, shape what and how we eat
- Highlights cutting-edge nutrition research illustrating how, when it comes to health-giving diets, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts — and one size doesn't fit all
Series Description
The perfect primer for complex current event issues and countries…
Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® (WENTK) series offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries, spanning across popular topics and disciplines including Politics, Economics, Sciences, and Religion. WENTKs are written by leading experts in their fields and provide, in a straight-forward question-and-answer format, insight in such a way that students and scholars alike can stay up-to-date on the most important topics leading the discussion today in politics, health, global affairs, and more.
Please note: As this series is not ELT material, these titles are not subject to discount.
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