Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and author of What to Eat ‘Catherine Price gives us a journalist’s entertaining romp through the fascinating history of the discovery of vitamins, and their use and marketing as objects of health obsession. Faith in vitamins, she advises, should be tempered by scientific uncertainty and dietary complexity, and the understanding that foods are better sources than pills.’
An excellent addition to collections in public and consumer health libraries.’ ― Library Journal Readers interested in health, and those who enjoy Marion Nestle’s books will want to read this work. ‘This entertaining and informative book traces the history of vitamins and nutritional diseases. You'll never look at the a bottle of multivitamins the same way again.’ - Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better ‘This is a fascinating look at what we know – and mostly what we don’t – about vitamins.
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The book concludes with this refreshing advice: get your nutrition from eating real food.’ - Michele Simon, President of Eat Drink Politics, and author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back Price exposes the less-than-scientific roots of what has become a multi-billion industry, along with the inadequate regulatory oversight that drives unsavory marketing practices.
‘A much-needed critique of the nation’s obsession with nutritional supplements. ' investigation, full of scurvy-ridden sailors, questionable nutritional supplements and solid science, is both entertaining and enlightening.' ― Discover She also reminds us that the prophets of vitamania, and their political allies, would all be powerless if it were not for a peculiar kind of deficiency in ourselves that keeps us reaching for ‘a salve against uncertainty.’ Faced with such primal fears, it seems, science is powerless.' ― Wall Street Journal
'Behind the bizarre disconnect between rigorous drug regulation and a ‘whatever’ approach to dietary supplements are industry lobbying, Oz-like doctors and politicians on both sides of the aisle whose states benefit from the thousands of jobs provided by the multi-billion-dollar supplement industry. ' absorbing and meticulously researched history of the beginnings and causes of our obsession with vitamins and nutrition.' ― New York Times If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book.' ― Scientific American ‘Engaging… makes a compelling case for the importance of eating real food’ ― BBC Focus ‘Gets to the nub of how we have become nutritionally idiotic… alarming’ ― Sunday Times 'An excellent book.10/10.a deeply satisfying masterpiece of nutrition science writing'.
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