Food and Nutrition Controversies Today: A Reference Guide

Every month, new books on the latest diet or nutrition trend hit the market. Many of these popular titles make a decidedly one‐sided argument on a particular topic. Reading Food and Nutrition Controversies Today: A Reference Guide, authored by husband and wife team Myrna and Mark Goldstein is refreshing in its ability to set forth both sides of many food and nutrition‐related issues without clearly favouring one side over another.

An updated look at many of the issues set forth in the Goldsteins' previous book, Controversies in Food and Nutrition (Goldstein and Goldstein, 2002), with some new...