Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection

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Vitamania Though we?ve gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we?ve lost is a crucial sense of perspective. Vitamins may be essential to our lives, but they are not the only important substances in food. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health?whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes, vitamins. And it?s our vitamin-inspired desire for effortless shortcuts that created today?s dietary supplement industry, a veritable Wild West of overpromising "miracle" substances that can be legally sold without any proof that they are effective or safe. For the countless individuals seeking to maximize their health and who consider vitamins to be the keys to well-being, Price?s -- Vitamania From the Hardcover edition.  Read more... Abstract: -- Vitamania Though we?ve gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we?ve lost is a crucial sense of perspective. Vitamins may be essential to our lives, but they are not the only important substances in food. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health?whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes, vitamins. And it?s our vitamin-inspired desire for effortless shortcuts that created today?s dietary supplement industry, a veritable Wild West of overpromising "miracle" substances that can be legally sold without any proof that they are effective or safe. For the countless individuals seeking to maximize their health and who consider vitamins to be the keys to well-being, Price?s -- Vitamania From the Hardcover edition Content: High seas and Hi-C -- Plants and plants -- Death by deficiency -- The journey into food -- From A to Zeitgeist -- Nutritional blindness -- From pure food to pure chaos -- The people's pills -- Foods with benefits -- The nutritional frontier -- Appendix A. The vitamins -- Appendix B. Abbreviations and definitions -- Recommended dietary allowances chart.