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Panic in the Pantry: Facts & Fallacies About the Food You Buy (Consumer Health Library) - Tapa blanda

Whelan, Elizabeth

 
9780879757328: Panic in the Pantry: Facts & Fallacies About the Food You Buy (Consumer Health Library)
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ISBN 10: 0879757329 ISBN 13: 9780879757328
Editorial: G38-Prometheus, 1992

Sinopsis

"Panic in the Pantry" was written to help consumers become fully aware of the real facts behind news about the safety of our food supply. Whelan and Stare examine the power wielded by health food lobbyists who band together and exert political pressure to protect their profitable ventures. They discuss the concept of "relative risk" and why it should be used to place information about food additives and preservatives into proper perspective, as well as why the Delaney Clause - a law intended to protect us from cancer causing chemicals in our food - cannot fulfil the noble purpose for which it was drafted and therefore should be repealed. Also examined is the research behind the banning of cyclomates and the attacks on saccharin and aspartame that left many Americans wondering whether they are doomed to be chubby or develop cancer.A lengthy discussion of California's Proposition 65 provides insight into the chaos that can result when fearmongers are able to secure legislation based on panic about food supply. The authors also address the flight to "natural" products, which may lead to serious health problems as well as added consumer expense. The contemporary back-to-nature mania is rejected as a hoax perpetuated by opportunists intent on taking advantage of frightened and impressionable consumers.

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Reseña del editor

Assesses the medical and nutritional values of food additives and explains how many are both safe and important components of the American diet

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Editorial
G38-Prometheus
Año de publicación
1992
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0879757329
ISBN 13 
9780879757328
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
223
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