Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection

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Label

Vitamania : our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection

Title remainder

our obsessive quest for nutritional perfection

Statement of responsibility

Catherine Price

Creator

• Price, Catherine, 1978-

Contributor

• Price, Catherine

Author

• Price, Catherine, 1978-

Subject

• Food habits -- Social aspects -- United States
• Overseas item
• United States
• United States
• Diet
• Vitamins in human nutrition -- Social aspects
• Vitamins in human nutrition -- Social aspects -- United States
• Vitamins
• Food habits -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

Health-conscious Australians seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better - and yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead, we outsource our questions to experts and interpret 'vitamin' as shorthand for 'health.' Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of vitamins led to today's Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we've developed with these thirteen mysterious chemicals. In so doing, Vitamania both demolishes many of our society's most cherished myths about nutrition and challenges us to reevaluate our own beliefs

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

613.286

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult