What’s more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. In so doing, Vitamania both demolishes many of our society's most cherished myths about nutrition and challenges us to reevaluate our own beliefs. David Naimon Publication date Most of us know nothing about vitamins. 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 thirteen mysterious chemicals. In Vitamania, 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.

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 that we might (and should) otherwise reject. 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. Yet despite a century of scientific research, 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. Instead, we outsource our questions to experts and interpret 'vitamin' as shorthand for 'health.' We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better -and yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. by Catherine Price (Author) 489 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 24.31 2 Used from 24.31 8 New from 32.38 Paperback 24.99 12 New from 24.99 If youre not having fun, youre not fully living. Her previous books include Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We. Health-conscious Australians 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. Catherine Price is an author and science journalist whose articles and. The startling story of our devotion to vitamins - and how it keeps us from good health.

Vitamania by Catherine Price