Food and Nutrition Controversies Today: A Reference Guide

Is any food safe? Will Mad Cow Disease kill us all? How many calories are really in your restaurant Caesar salad? Modern consumers are besieged with conflicting messages about food and nutrition, making it difficult for the lay person to know what to believe. This no-nonsense resource explores the latest controversies in the field of food and nutrition, presenting readers with the varying opinions and underlying facts that fuel these debates. Fifteen chapters focus on hot topics like organic food, bottled water, and deadly bacterial outbreaks as well as lesser known issues such as food irradiation, vitamin supplementation, animal growth hormones, and more. This informative reference is perfect for high school and college students or for the conscientious consumer.

Myrna Chandler Goldstein has been a freelance writer and independent scholar for two decades. Her website is Doing Good, While Doing Business: Support Socially Responsible Companies (www.changethemold.com). She is the author ofBoys into Men, Controversies in Food and Nutrition and Controversies in the Practice of Medicine with Greenwood Press.

Mark A. Goldstein, MD, is Chief, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Chief of Adolescent Programs at Newton Wellesley Hospital.