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A chemical feast / by W. Harding leRïche.
LIBRA Rare TX353 .L39 1982 Malgieri copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Riche, W. Harding (William Harding), 1916-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food.
- Diet.
- Diet in disease.
- Medical Subjects:
- Diet.
- Food.
- Penn Provenance:
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Facts on File Publications, [©1982]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chemicals and the normal diet
- Dietary changes and malnutrition in North America
- Food additives and illness
- Natural poisons in foods
- Pesticides and other chemicals
- Food poisoning and parasites
- Water in health and disease
- Drugs in pregnancy
- Do foods cause cancer?
- Atherosclerosis, heart disease, and diet
- Hypoglycemia, hyperactivity, and food allergy
- The chemical feast.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) and index.
- "A rational, commonsense discussion of chemicals in foods by a noted specialist in nutrition and epidemiology, which demonstrates clearly that the technology that has dramatically improved nutrition and the quality of life in the past few decades has not brought with it dramatic new dangers to health and well-being"--Jacket subtitle.
- Local Notes:
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Le Riche, W. Harding (William Harding), 1916- Chemical feast.
- ISBN:
- 0458954209
- 9780458954209
- 0871966433
- 9780871966438
- 0871966441
- 9780871966445
- OCLC:
- 8281420
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