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During the past 25 years, nutrition has been challenged in an unprecedented
way to reconsider its basic tenets. These challenges have come from
research in fields like environmental medicine, clinical ecology,
toxicology, molecular biology, and genetics. Environmental Nutrition is the
first reference work to respond to these challenges by providing a
completely new framework for understanding nourishment. In addition, the
book provides in-depth discussions of topical issues like food irradiation,
use of food additives, use of pesticides, packaging, organic farming,
sustainable agriculture, and deforestation.
Environmental Nutrition: Understanding the Link between Environment, Food Quality, and Disease is designed to meet the needs of the general as
well as the scientifically-trained reader by presenting information at
several different levels of description. For general readers interested in
facts and figures related to nutrition and the environment, the book
provides historical and current affairs information and addresses ideas
that help explain shifting patterns in cultural events.
For scientifically-trained readers, the book provides explanation on a
technical and biochemical level. Chemical drawings and diagrams are used to
show key molecular events. Clinicians reading the book will also benefit
from detailed discussion of chronic health problems created by toxic
exposure and from explanation of disease processes at an underlying
metabolic level.
This affordably-priced text can serve as an outstanding sourcebook of
information. It can also act as an effective teaching tool at the graduate
or undergraduate level.
A brand new addition to the book, Environmental Nutrition, 2010 Updates, has been produced in the form of a matching 37-page booklet form and will also be made available to purchasers of the text. The 2010 Updates include "must know" information on sustainability and carbon footprinting of food; genetic engineering and irradiation of food; mercury in fish; current issues in organics, and much more. Featured in the 2010 Updates are "What You Can Do" sections that describe both personal health and community action steps; more than two dozen website resources focused on information about nutrition and the environment; a dozen new charts and graphs, and over 60 new resource citations.
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