
Vitamania
Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection
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Catherine Price
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Vitamania is the startling story of America's devotion to vitamins - and how it keeps us from good health.
Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better - yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead we outsource our questions to experts and interpret vitamin as shorthand for health.
What we don't realize is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. Yes, we need vitamins; without them we would die. Yet despite a century of scientific research (the word vitamin was coined only in 1912), there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it's exactly how much we each require or what these 13 dietary chemicals actually do.
The one thing that experts do agree upon is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them, which have countless chemicals beyond vitamins that may be beneficial. But thanks to our love of processed foods (whose natural vitamins and other chemicals have often been removed or destroyed), this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Instead we allow marketers to use the addition of synthetic vitamins to blind us to what else in food we might be missing, leading us to accept as healthy products what we might otherwise reject.
Grounded in history but firmly oriented toward the future, Vitamania reveals the surprising story of how our embrace of vitamins led to today's Wild West of dietary supplements and investigates the complicated psychological relationship we've developed with these 13 mysterious chemicals. In so doing, Vitamania both demolishes many of our society's most cherished myths about nutrition and challenges us to reevaluate our own beliefs.
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Great source of information on vitamins
I really enjoyed listening to this audio book. It was researched well, narrated well and the information presented had both historical as well as scientific information.
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Read it twice!
This was such a good history of food & quack foods I had to read it twice. Much of this I’ve lived thru but the history of the past before I came along was fascinating! I think I’ll continue to take my oneaday but maybe every other day.
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This book is excellent and full of relevant information. I would recommend to anyone who loves to learn.
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Great book! Would like more info...
This book was great! I’m tossing out all of my vitamins!
My only request is that the author provides sources of reliable vitamins. Is it just prescription vitamins that are reliable or are there companies with better than legally necessary practices? There isn’t anything on her website where I think it would be helpful.
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- 03-07-15
Follow the money! 😩
This is a paid anti-nutrient book that was sponsored by big pharma. Flawed scientific studies and opinion based.
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- 05-09-22
Repetitive.
As I’m listening to this I keep thinking, please get to the point. Most of this information is just filler.
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