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The Resource Real food : what to eat and why, Nina Planck

Real food : what to eat and why, Nina Planck

Label
Real food : what to eat and why
Title
Real food
Title remainder
what to eat and why
Statement of responsibility
Nina Planck
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Everyone loves real food, but they're afraid butter and eggs will give them a heart attack--thus the culinary abomination known as the egg-white omelet. Tossing out the yolk, it turns out, isn't smart
Cataloging source
BKL
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1971-
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Planck, Nina
Dewey number
613.20973
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • DIET (Event)
  • Nutrition
  • Diet
  • Nutrition
  • United States
Label
Real food : what to eat and why, Nina Planck
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Originally published: 2006
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-321) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ch.1. I grow up on real food, lose my way and come home again : First I explain what real food is ; We become vegetable farmers in Virginia ; I am forced to eat homemade food ; My virtuous diet made me plump and grumpy ; In London I am rescued by farmers' markets ; I discover Weston Price and his odd notions ; Everywhere I go, people are afraid of real food -- Ch.2. Real milk, butter and cheese : I am nursed on the perfect food ; I remember milking Mabel the cow ; A short history of milk ; I reply to the milk critics ; Milk, butter, cholesterol and heart disease ; Traditional milk and industrial milk are different ; I describe the virtues of raw milk ; I learn to appreciate proper cheese -- Ch.3. Real meat : Why even vegetable farms need animals ; How factory farms wreck the natural order ; Why grass is best (and I don't mean for tennis) ; The virtues of beef, pork and poultry fat ; I try the Winston Churchill diet; I am skeptical that red meat causes cancer ; Buying and cooking real meat -- Ch.4. Real fish : How our brains grew fat on fish ; Life after salmon: obesity, diabetes, and heart disease ; Are you depressed? try eating more fish ; The truth about fish farming -- Ch.5. Real fruit and vegetables : Why I never rebelled against vegetables ; What is an industrial tomato? ; I learn how to answer the question: are you organic? ; How to eat more vegetables -- Ch.6. Real Fats : Some surprising facts about fats ; If you have only two minutes to learn about fats, read this ; How I stopped worrying and learned to love saturated fats ; Please butter your carrots ; Make mine extra virgin ; My opinion of the minor vegetable oils ; Coconut oil is good for you -- Ch.7. Industrial fats ; How the margarine makers outfoxed the dairy farmers ; How fake butter causes heart disease ; Why I don't eat corn, soybean, or sunflower oil ; I am not convinced by Canola -- Ch.8. Other real foods ; The abominable egg white omelet ; Whole grains and real bread ; Traditional and industrial soy are different ; I explain the difference between good salt and bad ; Chocolate: the darker the better -- Ch.9. Beyond cholesterol ; What is cholesterol? ; How cholesterol became the villain ; The cholesterol skeptics ; Diet first, then medication ; A disease of deficiency -- Ch.10. The omnivore's dilemma
Control code
1090583
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
Pbk edition.
Extent
343 pages
Isbn
9781596913424
Isbn Type
(Paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781596913424
  • (OCoLC)144570473
Label
Real food : what to eat and why, Nina Planck
Publication
Note
Originally published: 2006
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-321) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Ch.1. I grow up on real food, lose my way and come home again : First I explain what real food is ; We become vegetable farmers in Virginia ; I am forced to eat homemade food ; My virtuous diet made me plump and grumpy ; In London I am rescued by farmers' markets ; I discover Weston Price and his odd notions ; Everywhere I go, people are afraid of real food -- Ch.2. Real milk, butter and cheese : I am nursed on the perfect food ; I remember milking Mabel the cow ; A short history of milk ; I reply to the milk critics ; Milk, butter, cholesterol and heart disease ; Traditional milk and industrial milk are different ; I describe the virtues of raw milk ; I learn to appreciate proper cheese -- Ch.3. Real meat : Why even vegetable farms need animals ; How factory farms wreck the natural order ; Why grass is best (and I don't mean for tennis) ; The virtues of beef, pork and poultry fat ; I try the Winston Churchill diet; I am skeptical that red meat causes cancer ; Buying and cooking real meat -- Ch.4. Real fish : How our brains grew fat on fish ; Life after salmon: obesity, diabetes, and heart disease ; Are you depressed? try eating more fish ; The truth about fish farming -- Ch.5. Real fruit and vegetables : Why I never rebelled against vegetables ; What is an industrial tomato? ; I learn how to answer the question: are you organic? ; How to eat more vegetables -- Ch.6. Real Fats : Some surprising facts about fats ; If you have only two minutes to learn about fats, read this ; How I stopped worrying and learned to love saturated fats ; Please butter your carrots ; Make mine extra virgin ; My opinion of the minor vegetable oils ; Coconut oil is good for you -- Ch.7. Industrial fats ; How the margarine makers outfoxed the dairy farmers ; How fake butter causes heart disease ; Why I don't eat corn, soybean, or sunflower oil ; I am not convinced by Canola -- Ch.8. Other real foods ; The abominable egg white omelet ; Whole grains and real bread ; Traditional and industrial soy are different ; I explain the difference between good salt and bad ; Chocolate: the darker the better -- Ch.9. Beyond cholesterol ; What is cholesterol? ; How cholesterol became the villain ; The cholesterol skeptics ; Diet first, then medication ; A disease of deficiency -- Ch.10. The omnivore's dilemma
Control code
1090583
Dimensions
21 cm
Edition
Pbk edition.
Extent
343 pages
Isbn
9781596913424
Isbn Type
(Paperback)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781596913424
  • (OCoLC)144570473

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