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  title info:
    title: Terrors of the table
    sub title: the curious history of nutrition
  name:
    name part: Gratzer, W. B. (Walter Bruno)
    name part: 1932-2021
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: ix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: 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 personalities, a veritable who's who of medical history, from Hippocrates to Pasteur, plus such intriguing figures such as Count Rumford, who argued that since plants got their food from water, soups would make the best meals for us. The author highlights the brilliant flashes of insight as well as the sadly mistaken leaps of logic in the centuries long effort to understand how the body uses food. We see the ingenious experiments used to reveal the workings of the stomach, the chemical analyses that uncovered the nature of proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins, and the slow recognition that malnutrition lay behind such terrible diseases as scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra. Along the way, we read about the invention of the tin can (which originally had to be opened with a hammer and chisel), learn why ancient Egyptians had thicker skulls than Persians, and find out about today's fads and fancy diets, some dangerous, others just daft, such as the blood group diet, where you plan your meals around your blood type (people who are type 0 are supposed to eat more meat). Included are anecdotes from the history of medicine and with sharp portraits of the scientists who advanced our understanding of diet and digestion.
  table of contents: The ravages of war -- The scurvy wars -- In the beginning -- Dawn of the scientific age: the road to the scaffold -- The savants' disputes -- The poor, the rich, the healthy, and the sick -- Cheats and poisoners -- Paradigm postponed: the tardy arrival of vitamins -- The quarry run to earth -- Fads and quacks -- The new millennium: profits and the higher quackery.
  note: Walter Gratzer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Diet in disease
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition disorders
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Diet therapy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Vitamins in human nutrition
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  subject:
    topic: Food
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition Disorders
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
  subject:
    topic: Diet Therapy
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Vitamins
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Aliments
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Régimes alimentaires
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Maladies de la nutrition
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Diétothérapie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Vitamines dans l'alimentation humaine
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  subject:
    topic: Food
  subject:
    topic: Diet in disease
  subject:
    topic: Diet therapy
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition disorders
  subject:
    topic: Vitamins in human nutrition
  classification: RA784 .G726 2005
  classification: 613.209
  classification: 2005 N-556
  classification: QU 11.1 G773t 2005
  classification: 613.2
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    record content source: NLM
    record creation date: 050630
    record change date: 20240807185313.5
    record identifier: in00004809689
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng