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Catherine Price

The Vitamin Complex

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Mad vitamin crazes and military rations, super foods and ‘micro-nutrients’, the clandestine debate over whether Marmite is food or drug: for centuries, we’ve been fiddling with our food, for better and for worse. In The Vitamin Complex, Price visits the US Combat Feeding Directorate to sample caffeinated meat sticks and investigates the cartel of pharmaceutical companies who control the world’s increasingly synthetic vitamin supply. We learn about the raw ingredients in our favourite fortified foods (think acetone and formaldehyde) and meet William Stark, a British man who tried to live on a pudding-only diet – and died at age 29. Our experiments with food have huge consequences.
Combining the wit of Mary Roach with the incisiveness of Michael Pollan, The Vitamin Complex is an eye-opening tour of the science of modern food – and what it’s doing to our health.
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  • Laila Helt Domingos Bendtsenцитирует5 лет назад
    The other nine are water-soluble: C (ascorbic acid) and the eight substances grouped together in what’s called the B complex—B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B7 (biotin, also sometimes referred to as vitamin H), B9 (folate/folic acid), and B12 (cobalamin). Sometimes choline is counted as a fourteenth vitamin, but usually the roster ends at thirteen.
  • Laila Helt Domingos Bendtsenцитирует5 лет назад
    Four are fat-soluble, meaning they dissolve in fat and need fat to be absorbed: A (retinol), D (cholecalciferol), E (tocopherol), and K (phylloquinone).
  • Fatima Djamirzeцитирует7 лет назад
    The other nine are water-soluble: C (ascorbic acid) and the eight substances grouped together in what’s called the B complex—B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B7 (biotin, also sometimes referred to as vitamin H), B9 (folate/folic acid), and B12 (cobalamin). Sometimes choline is counted as a fourteenth vitamin, but usually the roster ends at thirteen.

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