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  • Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality

    by Berthold Koletzko ...
    Series series
    Hidden hunger has long been an overlooked problem. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies have to be remedied and the availability of calories needs to be increased. As a matter of fact, the number of people who do not have access to a balanced diet has multiplied in rich and poor countries, with lasting consequences for health and well-being. Hidden hunger not only affects childhood growth and ... Read more

    $180.99 CAD

  • Hidden Hunger

    Malnutrition and the First 1,000 Days of Life: Causes, Consequences and Solutions

    by Berthold Koletzko ...
    Series series
    Malnutrition caused by deficiencies of vitamins and minerals - also called hidden hunger - impairs both the intellectual and physical development of a child. Due to the absence of clinical symptoms and assessments, no intervention can be staged. The tragedy is that this, in turn, decreases the child’s chance to escape from poverty. This book looks at malnutrition in high-income countries, the ... Read more

    $180.99 CAD

  • The Road to Good Nutrition

    Edited by M. Eggersdorfer, K. Kraemer, M. Ruel, M. Van Ameringen, H.K. Biesalski, M. Bloem, J. Chen, A. Lateef, V. Mannar ...
    This is a work of advocacy, whose prime objective is to inform people about the relationship between nutrition security and public health. It draws on the thinking and experience of a selected number of experts in the field of nutrition and public health. Collating up-to-the-minute information in a clear and accessible way, the book forms a ‘one-stop information source’, and paves the way for ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Milk and dairy products are a vital source of nutrition for many people. They also present livelihood opportunities for farm families, processors and other stakeholders in dairy value chains. Consumers, industry and governments need up-to-date information on how milk and dairy products can contribute to human nutrition and how dairy-industry development can best contribute to increasing food ... Read more

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  • Food Fortification

    The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food

    by Mark Lawrence ...
    Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health. Increasing numbers of foods fortified with novel amounts and combinations of nutrients are being introduced into the food supplies of countries around the world to raise populations' nutrient intakes. It is a ... Read more

    $56.59 CAD

  • Sick Societies

    Responding to the global challenge of chronic disease

    Edited by David Stuckler, Karen Siegel ...
    Chronic diseases-heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, and common cancers-claim more than one out of every two lives worldwide. Within the next few decades their toll will rise, most greatly in developing countries. Yet this rapid growth of chronic diseases is not being met with a proportionate global response. Left unaddressed, they pose a major threat to social and economic development. This ... Read more

    $59.59 CAD

  • Food Fix

    How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time

    by Dr. Mark Hyman, MD ...
    Series Book 9 - The Dr. Mark Hyman Library
    An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD."Read this book if you're ready to change the world." —Tim Ryan, US RepresentativeWhat we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Metabolical

    The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

    by Robert H. Lustig ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our metabolic health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto based on nutrition science to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ensuring Global Food Safety

    Exploring Global Harmonization

    Edited by Christine Boisrobert, Sangsuk Oh, Aleksandra Stjepanovic, Huub Lelieveld ...
    Taking into account toxicity levels at normal consumption levels, intake per kg bodyweight and other acknowledged considerations, each chapter in this book will be based on one or more proven examples. It is intended to provide specific examples and potential improvements to the safety of the world's food supply, while also increasing the amount of food available to those in undernourished ... Read more

    $108.79 CAD

  • Safe Food

    The Politics of Food Safety

    by Marion Nestle ...
    Series Book 5 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"—only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Lethal But Legal

    Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health

    by Nicholas Freudenberg ...
    Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility to protect public health by privatizing key services, weakening regulations, and cutting ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Eating Ourselves Sick

    by Louise Stephen ...
    "Louise Stephen's powerful, no-holds-barred demolition of Big Food dissects the profit motive that has filled our food supply with toxic oils and sugar, and shows us how money is destroying our health." DAVID GILLESPIEOur diet has changed radically in the space of 100 years. We have swapped home-cooked food made with whole ingredients for processed food made from sugar, seed oils and refined wheat ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD