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  Terrors of the Table - The Curious History of Nutrition
  by Walter
Gratzer
  Oxford University Press | November 2005 | ISBN-10: 0192806610 | 288 Pages | PDF | 19.6 mb
  http://www.amazon.com/Terror...tory-Nutrition/dp/0192806610
  
  Walter Gratzer
here offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the
struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary.
 
Gratzer recounts this history with characteristic crispness and verve. The book teems with colorful personalities, a
veritable who's who of medical history, from Hippocrates to Pasteur, plus such intriguing figures such as Count Rumford,
who argued that since plants got their food from water, soups would make the best meals for us. Gratzer highlights the
brilliant flashes of insight as well as the sadly mistaken leaps of logic in the centuries-long effort to understand how
the body uses food. We see the ingenious experiments used to reveal the workings of the stomach, the chemical analyses
that uncovered the nature of proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins, and the slow recognition that malnutrition lay
behind such terrible diseases as scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra. Along the way, we read about the invention of
the tin can (which originally had to be opened with a hammer and chisel), learn why ancient Egyptians had thicker skulls
than Persians, and find out about today's fads and fancy diets--some dangerous, others just daft, such as the blood
group diet, where you plan your meals around your blood type (people who are type 0 are supposed to eat more meat).
  Spiced with colorful anecdotes from the history of medicine and with sharp portraits of the scientists who advanced
our understanding of diet and digestion, Terrors of the Table is a must read for anyone interested in food and
health.
  
  About the Author
  Walter B.
Gratzer is a British biophysical chemist. He is professor emeritus of biophysical chemistry at King's College London and
an author and reviewer of popular science. He was the first Nature news correspondent appointed by editor John Maddox.
Oliver Sacks of Nature writes that his reviews have high literary quality and show knowledge of a wide range of topics.
He is a friend of James D. Watson, and wrote the introduction and afterword of his A Passion for DNA.
  Gratzer
received his BA in chemistry in 1954 and his MA in 1958 from the University of Oxford, and his PhD in 1960 from the
National Institute for Medical Research. He was a research fellow at Harvard University from 1960 to 1963, a lecturer in
biophysics at King's from 1963 to 1966, and worked at the Medical Research Council from 1966 to 1996. He has been
emeritus professor since 1997.
  
  CONTENTS
  Picture acknowledgements vi
  Introduction vii
  1 The Ravages of War i
  2 The Scurvy
Wars 16
  3 In the Beginning 36
  4 Dawn of the Scientific Age: the Road to the Scaffold 48
  5 The
Savants' Disputes 69
  6 The Poor, the Rich, the Healthy, and the Sick 100
  7 Cheats and Poisoners 118
 
8 Paradigm Postponed: the Tardy Arrival of Vitamins 135
  9 The Quarry Run to Earth 162
  10 Fads and Quacks
188
  11 The New Millennium: Profits and the Higher Quackery 211
  Appendix The Hard Science 248
 
Further Reading and References 260
  Index 270 						

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