Tufts University Guide to Total Nutrition by Stanley Gershoff, Catherine Whitney, Tufts University Diet and Nutrition Letter Editorial

From Barnes & Noble

Now more than ever, reliable, authoritative information is necessary for making smart decisions regarding one's health. This comprehensive guide, revised and updated, ensures better health through better nutrition. Includes a 21-day, low-fat, low-cholesterol diet and new information on vitamins, cancer, food shopping, heart disease, youth and obesity, weight loss, and more. You also get the federal government's food labeling guidelines; fish, meat, and milk safety regulations; dietary connections and prescriptions for AIDS and other ailments; and more. Generously illustrated with charts, lists, and graphs.

From the Publisher

From America's leading school of nutrition, this newly revised edition of the most comprehensive and easy-to-read guide—whose first edition sold 50,000 copies—offers practical information and advice on all aspects of food and diet.

Publishers Weekly

From the editors of the monthly Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter comes this compendium of the latest in nutrition. While the approach of Tufts University School of Nutrition dean Gershoff and collaborator Whitney is eminently accessible, their information will be familiar to most. The authors are self-effacing, presenting current consensus rather than any individual point of view, and they try to speak to every imaginable reader, so the practical advice is rather fragmented. The first two thirds of the volume recount standard views on food groups and vitamins and offer tips for shopping, home cooking and eating out. Remaining chapters touch briefly on diet-related health issues (e.g., weight loss) and on the differing needs of children, women and the elderly. A 21-day low-cholesterol menu is featured with a few basic recipes; notes on eating and exercise are sketchy at best. Q & A sections, mostly in the form of ``quizzes,'' are scattered throughout, as are tables that range from helpful to redundant. This is a book for consumers in search of simple background information or willing to fish out tidbits from a store of general counsel. BOMC alternate. (June)

Booknews

A popular treatment of man's most popular entertainment. Gershoff (Tufts U. diet & nutrition letter) has extracted from the newsletter and his contributors to craft a readable and reliable book. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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