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| LC control number |
2006272977 |
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BIB MATCHES WORLDCAT |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0192806610 |
| Qualifying information |
alk. paper |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780192806611 |
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alk. paper |
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(OCoLC)60837725 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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NLM |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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NLM |
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nlmcopyc |
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| Classification number |
RA784 |
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.G725 2005 |
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| Classification number |
TX353 |
| Item number |
.G73 2005 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
613.209 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gratzer, W. B. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Walter Bruno), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1932- |
| Relator term |
author. |
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255392 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Terrors of the table : |
| Remainder of title |
the curious history of nutrition / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Walter Gratzer. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Oxford ; |
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New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 288 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-269) and index. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Miscellaneous information |
1. |
| Title |
The ravages of war -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
2. |
| Title |
The scurvy wars -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
3. |
| Title |
In the beginning -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
4. |
| Title |
Dawn of the scientific age : the road to the scaffold -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
5. |
| Title |
The savants' disputes -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
6. |
| Title |
The poor, the rich, the healthy, and the sick -- |
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7. |
| Title |
Cheats and poisoners -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
8. |
| Title |
Paradigm postponed : the tardy arrival of vitamins -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
9. |
| Title |
The quarry run to Earth -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
10. |
| Title |
Fads and quacks -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
11. |
| Title |
The new millennium : profits and the higher quackery -- |
| Miscellaneous information |
App. |
| Title |
The hard science. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The author here offers a marvelous smorgasbord of stories taken from the history of nutrition, providing an engaging account of the struggle to find the ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have waylaid the unwary. The book teems with colorful personalities, a veritable who's who of medical history, from Hippocrates to Pasteur, plus such intriguing figures such as Count Rumford, who argued that since plants got their food from water, soups would make the best meals for us. The author highlights the brilliant flashes of insight as well as the sadly mistaken leaps of logic in the centuries long effort to understand how the body uses food. We see the ingenious experiments used to reveal the workings of the stomach, the chemical analyses that uncovered the nature of proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins, and the slow recognition that malnutrition lay behind such terrible diseases as scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra. Along the way, we read about the invention of the tin can (which originally had to be opened with a hammer and chisel), learn why ancient Egyptians had thicker skulls than Persians, and find out about today's fads and fancy diets, some dangerous, others just daft, such as the blood group diet, where you plan your meals around your blood type (people who are type 0 are supposed to eat more meat). Included are anecdotes from the history of medicine and with sharp portraits of the scientists who advanced our understanding of diet and digestion. |
| 520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"This is the story of man's enduring curiosity about the way that food sustains life, and of our untiring struggle to find the vital ingredients of a healthy diet." "It is a story of heroes and villains, of scientists who risked their lives in self-experimentation, and of quacks and charlatans preying, as they still prey, on a gullible public. Through these pages march a procession of remarkable personages: there are scientific geniuses and social crusaders; there is the incomparable Lavoisier, who died on the scaffold; Justus von Liebig, the most celebrated chemist of his time, who truculently promoted his own usually valueless patent foods; the egregious Count Rumford of the Holy Roman Empire, spy, physicist, diplomatist and scoundrel, who improved the lot of the poor "without loving or esteeming his fellow-creatures"; and many more. And here also march the poisoners, the faddists, the peddlers of nostrums like Lydia Pinkham's cure-all, consisting mainly of alcohol, and soothing opium syrups for babies." "Millions have died of malnutrition, caused as much by want as by ignorance of the essential requirements of the body; but more have been saved by increasingly scientific approaches to a healthy diet. Walter Gratzer tells the strange history of the science of nutrition: of the gradual dawning awareness that vital ingredients can stave off terrible diseases - such as scurvy, beriberi, rickets and pellagra - that still torment the poor around the globe, and also of the rush to develop diets and supplements that might improve the quality of life of those who eat them."--BOOK JACKET. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE |
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| Source of description note |
Machine converted from AACR2 source record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Diet in disease |
| General subdivision |
History |
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658600 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nutrition disorders |
| General subdivision |
History. |
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658603 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Diet therapy |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
658605 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Vitamins in human nutrition |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 9 (RLIN) |
658610 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Vitamins |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
658613 |
| 650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena |
| 9 (RLIN) |
513916 |
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| Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
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