Meat and Grain Nutritional Effects

Author: Lin Sle
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: "This is a handbook-style guide about food and its relationship with health. The book is clear, easy to understand, and contains comprehensive, reliable content, making it an indispensable and rare nutritional guide for food." — Barbara Seaman, Contributing Editor of Ms. Magazine and Co-founder and author of the National Women's Health Network.
This unique book provides new and objective information about the medicinal and nutritional aspects of food, including the content of various major nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals). Additionally, it highlights the potential harms of various foods (high cholesterol, high fat, high sodium) and the toxicity they may pose if consumed improperly or prepared incorrectly. It also lists the interactions between foods, including those that are beneficial and harmful to health. Under each entry, there is a nutritional summary summarizing the nutritional content of the food—calories, protein, fat, carbohydrates, fiber, as well as vitamins and minerals.