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"Real Food reveals why traditional foods are not only delicious - everyone knows that butter tastes better - but are actually good for you, making the nutritional case for egg, cream, butter, grass-fed beef, roast chicken with the skin, lard, cocoa butter, and more." "In lively, personal chapters on produce, dairy, meat, and fish, Nina explains how the foods we've eaten for thousands of years - pork, lamb, raw milk cheese, sea salt - have been falsely...

"Popular attitudes toward nutrition have been influenced by a variety of psychological, social, historical, and political factors. Foods frequently have reputations for health that have little to do with their nutrient content. Similarly, food nutrients (for example, dietary fat) often have reputations that are not in agreement with the established science concerning that particular nutrient. Bad Foods explores factors that influence our attitudes...

"Fat Nation is a social history of obesity in the United States since the second World War. In confronting this familiar topic from a historical perspective, Jonathan Engel attempts to show that obesity is a symptom of complex changes that have transpired over the past half century to our food, our living habits, our life patterns, our built environments, and our social interactions. He offers readers solid grounding in the known science underlying...

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This book presents an introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health...