Can someone recommend a good book on basic NUTRITION?

[battleknight24]

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[DustMolecule]

1. Not sure about books, but there's a lot of great info on the web

This link from Harvard School of Public Health is a really good one:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.html

[Senior citizen]

2. Not me, but if you like ethnic food

just pick any simple basic ethnic diet that people have survived on for thousands of years, and it will probably work.

[OneBlueSky]

3. well . . . this is a good place to start . . .

more of an overview rather than specific diet suggestions, but extremely important when considering your options . . .

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573247022.01._PE30_PIdp-schmoo2,TopRight,7,-26_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Help Save Your Life and Our World
by John Robbins, Dean Ornish MD, M.D., Dean Ornish

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573247022/qid=1088143622/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-4515073-0090306?v=glance&s=books

What can we do to help stop global warming, feed the hungry, prevent cruelty to animals, avoid genetically modified foods, be healthier and live longer? Eat vegetarian, Robbins (Diet for a New America) argues. Noting the massive changes in the environment, food-production methods, and technology over the last two decades, he lambastes (in a manner less tough-mindedly restrained than Frances Moore Lapp‚'s classic Diet for a Small Planet) contemporary factory-farming methods and demonstrates that individual dietary choices can be both empowering and have a broader impact. Robbins, heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice-cream empire (he rejected it to live according to his values), takes on fad diets, the meat industry, food irradiation, hormone and antibiotic use in animals, cruel animal husbandry practices, the economics of meat consumption, biotechnology and the prevalence of salmonella and E. Coli. Some details are downright revolting (euthanized dogs and cats often are made into cattle feed), horrific (some 90% of cows, pigs and poultry are still conscious when butchered) and mind-boggling (it takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef). Despite all this and more distressing information, Robbins ends on a hopeful note, detailing growth in organic farming, public awareness and consumer activism worldwide, as well as policy changes, especially in Europe. Well researched and lucidly written, if sometimes overly sentimental and burdened by clich‚d rhetoric, this book is sure to spark discussion and incite readers to examine their food choices. (July 2)Forecast: Diet for a New America was both controversial and influential; Robbins's name (and that of Dr. Dean Ornish, who provides a foreword) should draw readers, particularly to the author's six-city western U.S. tour. Global warming, animal rights, meat safety and genetically modified food are being recognized as important issues, but the kind of sea change the book calls for is unlikely to find a mass audience.

[AmyDeLune]

4. The New Laurel's Kitchen

by Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Brian Ruppenthal. Ten Speed Press, 1986, ISBN 0-89815-166-X.

The first 3/4 of the book is recipes, the last 1/4 is health and nutrition information. Good stuff!

[TheWizardOfMudd]

5. All you need is this

Organically grown whole grains, cooked by you at home (no additives beyond salt, pepper and spices, unless bread).
Fresh fruits.
Fresh vegetables.
Legumes and beans, cooked by you at home (no additives beyond salt, pepper and spices).
Raw nuts and seeds (or just lightly toasted).

[Richard D]

6. Cookbook/nutrition book

I really like Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. A bit radical in it's approach by modern standards, but makes a lot of sense once you get over "fat is bad". Quite an interesting read as well.

[Richard D]

7. Cookbook/nutrition book

I really like Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. A bit radical in it's approach by modern standards, but makes a lot of sense once you get over "fat is bad". Quite an interesting read as well.