![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. In "Vitamania," award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we've become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good-and the more of them, the better-vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. What's more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. a commanding, meticulously documented, and riling expose rich in dramatic and absurd science and advertising history, lively profiles, and intrepid, eyebrow-raising fieldwork" -"Booklist "(STARRED) Most of us know nothing about vitamins. " A] hidden, many-faceted, and urgent story. ![]()
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