Food Content Guides category: 624 books
Thwarting Consumer Choice
The Case against Mandatory Labeling for Genetically Modified Foods
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Are consumers entitled to full disclosure about what is in their food? Many countries, including key U.S. trading partners in Europe and Asia, have adopted mandatory labeling laws for genetically modified crops such as corn and soybeans. Policymakers in the United States are under pressure from activist...
Sugar Has 56 Names
A Shopper's Guide (A Penguin Special from Hudson Street Press)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In the newest edition of The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the U.S. government has – for the very first time – limited the amount of sugar that it is safe for us to consume. Yet sugar hides behind many names on ingredient lists, making it sometimes impossible to discover. Although "evaporated...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. The latest assessment shows that further progress has been made towards the 2015 MDG target, which remains...
Meet Your Matcha
Over 50 Delicious Dishes Made with this Miracle Ingredient
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
From teas and smoothies to cakes and savoury dishes, here are over 50 fun new ways to spice up your cooking with the ingredient taking the world by storm.
Matcha teas and lattes have become a staple of every coffee shop and health food store. A beloved ingredient in Japan for generations, it...
The Pocket Calorie Counter, 2013 edition
The Complete Food Content Guide for Managing Your Health!
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
NEW, UPDATED AND IMPROVED EDITION! The Pocket Calorie Counter is a speedy, discreet way to stay informed about the content of your meals and snacks, wherever you are. Count on it!More than 8,000 entries!Provides calorie counts for most foods and beverages, as well as protein, carbs, fiber, sodium, fats, and other essentials.Includes menu items from popular restaurants, too!
Food, Morals and Meaning
The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Following on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, he explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us...
Ingredients
A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives & 25 Food Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In the bestselling tradition of The Elements and Salt Sugar Fat, an unprecedented visual exploration of what is really inside our food, setting the record straight on the controversial and fascinating science of chemical and synthetic additives in processed food—from Twinkies and McNuggets to organic...
Love Food? Let it love you.
What the diet industry doesn't tell you!
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
**Food is not our problem. **We might be overweight and we might be eating badly. But, seriously, it’s not the food’s problem.
In this busy world, we’re eating more than ever. But we’ve forgotten how to be in love with food. And we’ve forgotten how to let it love us. So, let’s...
by Rowena Jayne the Real Food Yogi
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Rowena will inspire you to truly get naked with the magic of food by squeezing the juice out of every possibility! A brilliant book written by an extraordinary human being! Carren Smith - Author, Presenter, TV Host and Raw Food Lover
In The Joy of Real Food, Rowena shares her journey from anorexic...
by Bailey Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Weight Watchers continues to be the number one choice for millions of Americans and has been voted the #1 Weight Loss Diet by US News & World Report! Weight Watchers has recently introduced The SmartPoints Plan, which encourages healthy eating and an overall healthy lifestyle. Lose weight and...
by Rachel Owens
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Cooking With Healing Herbs and Spices for a Healthy Diet and Natural Health: A Guide to 30+ Holistic Food Ingredients, Medicinal Plants, Flavors and Seasonings for Creating Healthy Recipes and Healthy Families
Our taste buds are what allow us to experience flavor...
Gillian McKeith's Food Bible
How to Use Food to Cure What Ails You
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
From the author of the 2-million- copy international bestseller You Are What You Eat comes the essential guide to health and nutrition
The celebrated clinical nutritionist, author of the internationally bestselling You Are What You Eat, and host of the BBC America show of the same name offers...
Wendyl Nissen's Supermarket Companion
How to Bring Home Good Food
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
“I began analysing supermarket foods every week for the Weekend Herald,” says Wendyl Nissen. “I thought it would be interesting and a bit of a challenge. But instead, I just got angry. Angry that sitting on the shelves which provide the majority of Kiwi families with their nutrition were additives...
Get Started in Food Writing
The complete guide to writing about food, cooking, recipes and gastronomy
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
LEARN HOW TO WRITE BEAUTIFULLY ABOUT FOOD AND BUILD AN AUDIENCE.
Are you thinking of starting a food blog, or have you always wanted to promote and distribute your own recipes? Would you like to be the next Nigel Slater or Jay Rayner?
This is an engaging, enlightening and utterly indispensable...