{"product_id":"vitamania-how-vitamins-revolutionized-the-way-we-think-about-food-paperback","title":"Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCatherine Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[An] absorbing and meticulously researched history of the beginnings and causes of our obsession with vitamins and nutrition.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Most of us know nothing about vitamins. What's more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we've become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good--and the more of them, the better--vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. In \u003ci\u003eVitamania\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. Yet it wasn't long before vitamins spread from labs of scientists into the realm of food marketers and began to take on a life of their own. The era of \"vitamania,\" as one 1940s journalist called it, had begun. Though we've gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we've lost is a crucial sense of perspective. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Price's travels to vitamin manufacturers and food laboratories and military testing kitchens--along with her deep dive into the history of nutritional science-- provide a witty and dynamic narrative arc that binds \u003ci\u003eVitamania\u003c\/i\u003e together. The result is a page-turning exploration of the history, science, hype, and future of nutrition. And her ultimate message is both inspiring and straightforward: given all that we don't know about vitamins and nutrition, the best way to decide what to eat is to stop obsessing and simply embrace this uncertainty head-on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eVitamania\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Measured, funny, and fascinating. The only thing that Catherine Price is selling here is good reporting, engaging storytelling, and more than you thought you could possibly learn about vitamins. If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book.\" --\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Price\u003c\/b\u003e an award-winning health and science journalist, speaker, founder of Screen\/Life Balance, and bestselling author of books including \u003ci\u003eHow to Break Up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food\u003c\/i\u003e. Her journalistic work has been featured in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePopular Science, \u003c\/i\u003e and her TED talk on fun was the 2nd most viewed for all of 2022. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e www.catherine-price.com\u003cbr\u003e @catherine_price\u003c\/b\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52607475089715,"sku":"9780143108153","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RvoV9LQbf39780143108153.webp?v=1761800072","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/vitamania-how-vitamins-revolutionized-the-way-we-think-about-food-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}