An entertaining exploration of the myths, claims, and misconceptions surrounding our obsession with diets, nutrition, and weight, from a renowned nutrition expert and chemistry professor

A clear, no-nonsense nutrition guide with advice for the organic-obsessed, the diet-depressed, and the everyday food lover

You have to be a nutritional scientist these days before you sit down to eat—which is why we need An...

The definitive, stand-alone companion book to the acclaimed documentary—now with 50 plant-based recipes and full-color photos to help you start changing your health for the better
There's something terribly broken in our industrial food, medical, and pharmaceutical systems. What's going wrong? Can we really avoid the leading causes of death just by changing our diet? Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, creators of the revolutionary What...

Introduces dairy in everyday meals to pre-readers using repetition of words and short, simple sentences with photos and illustrations to enhance the text.

Introduces fruit in everyday meals to pre-readers using repetition of words and short, simple sentences with photos and illustrations to enhance the text.

The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. Many foods we consume today--from almonds and apples to tea and rice--have histories can be traced along the tracks of the Silk Road out of prehistoric Central Asia to European kitchens and American tables. Organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century B.C., but the exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient trading...

Simple text and photos provide information about how farmers grow the foods we eat, including fruits, vegetables, grains, and more.

Explains how plants use sunlight to make energy for growth in a process called "photosynthesis" and links the plant foods we eat with this process.

"This glorious visual celebration of food in all its forms reveals the extraordinary cultural impact of the foods we eat, explores the early efforts of humans in their quest for sustenance, and tells the fascinating stories behind individual foods. With profiles of the most culturally and historically interesting foods of all types, from nuts and grains, fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish, to herbs and spices, this fascinating culinary historical...

"Describes how some of America's most famous colonial leaders not only established America's political destiny, but also revolutionized the very foods we eat. Features over thirty authentic colonial recipes..."--Cover p. [4]