Something to chew on
Subtitle: challenging controversies in food and health
By: Mike Gibney
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781906359676
Subjects: Food; Nutrition; Public health; Genetic engineering; Food supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: With regard to food; title: Sugar and spice and all things nasty; title: Modified foods: genetic or atomic?; title: The metrics of food and health; title: Personalised nutrition: fitting into your genes; title: Plastic babies: the phenomenon of epigenetics; title: Your inside is out: food, the gut and health; title: A tsunami of lard: the global epidemic of obesity; title: Greying matters; title: Food and health: the science, policy and politics; title: My food, your poison: who sees what in food?; title: How the other half dies; title: Mankind and mother earth; title: Projections and reflections.