Yet it wasn’t long before vitamins spread from labs of scientists into the realm of food marketers and began to take on a life of their own. In Vitamania, award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health.When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we’ve become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good-and the more of them, the better-vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. What’s more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health.
If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book." Scientific American ("Food Matters")
In Vitamania, award-winning journalist Catherine Price takes readers on a lively journey through the past, present and future of the mysterious micronutrients known as human vitamins - an adventure that includes poison squads and political maneuvering, irradiated sheep grease and smuggled rats. Part history, part science, part personal exploration, Price's witty and engaging book reveals how vitamins have profoundly shaped our attitudes toward eating, and investigates the emerging science of how what we eat might affect our offspring for generations to come."Measured, funny, and fascinating. "A deeply satisfying masterpiece of nutrition science writing." -Network Health Dieticians' Magazine (British nutritionists' journal) If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book." -Scientific American The only thing that Catherine Price is selling here is good reporting, engaging storytelling, and more than you thought you could possibly learn about vitamins. " absorbing and meticulously researched history of the beginnings and causes of our obsession with vitamins and nutrition." -The New York Times
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