Wonder Foods

Wonder Foods
Author: Lisa Haushofer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520390393

Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised wondrous solutions for what seemed to be both individual and social ills. By examining creations such as Gail Borden's meat biscuit, Benger's Food, Kellogg's health foods, and Fleischmann's yeast, Wonder Foods shows how new products dazzled with visions of modernity, efficiency, and scientific progress even as they perpetuated exclusionary views about who deserved to eat, thrive, and live. Drawing on extensive archival research, historian Lisa Haushofer reveals that the story of modern food and nutrition was not about innocuous technological advances or superior scientific insights, but rather about the powerful logic of exploitation and economization that undergirded colonial and industrial food projects. In the process, these wonder foods shaped both modern food regimes and how we think about food.

Super Foods for Pregnancy

Super Foods for Pregnancy
Author: Susannah Marriott
Publisher: Octopus Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-05-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0600632377

Certain foods pack a nutritional punch, and can provide the optimal nutrients to nourish an expectant woman - particularly important when pregnancy side effects make eating difficult. By feasting on the foods that do her and her baby most good, a pregnant woman can ensure that her baby's brain and other organs, tissues and bones, develop healthily and that she maintains the strength and stamina to carry her baby to term and withstand the rigours of labour and delivery. Some foods also can be used to create safe and supportive products that can be applied to the skin, used to promote sleep and combat nausea and other side effects. Additionally, there is guidance on growing some beneficial vegetables and herbs in a small garden or containers, or gathering from the wild.

Fermented Foods

Fermented Foods
Author: Christine Baumgarthuber
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1789143764

Fermented Foods serves up the history and science behind some of the world’s most enduring food and drink. It begins with wine, beer, and other heady brews before going on to explore the fascinating and often whimsical histories of fermented breads, dairy, vegetables, and meat, and to speculate on fermented fare’s possible future. Along the way, we learn about Roquefort cheese’s fabled origins, the scientific drive to brew better beer, the then-controversial biological theory that saved French wine, and much more. Christine Baumgarthuber also makes several detours into lesser known ferments—African beers, the formidable cured meats of the Subarctic latitudes, and the piquant, sometimes deadly ferments of Southeast Asia. Anyone in search of an accessible, fun, yet comprehensive survey of the world’s fermented foods need look no further than this timely, necessary work.

21 Super Foods

21 Super Foods
Author: Jevon Bolden
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1621366162

Powerful, nutrient-rich super-foods that will help you lose weight, manage stress and anxiety, build your immune system, look younger, lower blood pressure, fight cancer, and so much more--without side effects! In this first book in the series, readers will discover simple, power-packed, one-ingredient, stand-alone foods that will revolutionize their health. These 21 simple foods are nature’s side-effect-free agents that have been proven by science to be: Cancer cures Blood pressure reducers Mood enhancers Brain boosters Age inhibitors Pain relievers Weight loss accelerators, and more This book will also provide preparation and storage tips, healthy and delicious recipes, and little known health-tips and facts for each of these 21 super foods.

Super Foods Every Day

Super Foods Every Day
Author: Sue Quinn
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2015-12-29
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1607749416

A collection of more than 60 dishes that showcase super foods--ingredients from kale and seaweed to cocoa and avocado that are brimming with vitamins, minerals, and disease-fighting nutrients. Featuring straightforward delicious dishes, this easy-to-follow guide contains recipes like Wonder Smoothie, Vitaboost Frittata, Supercharged Carrots, Cauliflower Risotto, and Plum and Cranberry Crisp that showcase sensational super foods in every meal of the day. These recipes are designed to pack the maximize number of super foods into ones diet, using approachable, nutrient-dense ingredients. This collection of delicious sweet and savory dishes makes it easy to pack every meal with nutritional punch.

The TOP 10 Super Foods

The TOP 10 Super Foods
Author: Ryan Gunther
Publisher: Editora Bibliomundi
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2021
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1526040352

If you’re ever in a curious mood, Google the words, “food” and “the best medicine.” Three guesses what you’ll come up with.We’ve always known this—that food is the best medicine—but few of us realize how powerful this medicine is. Food has been called, “the ultimate and most powerful drug” by Dr. Barry Sears. Food has been singled out as “the most important treatment of any illness, and the only physical thingthat can prevent it,” paraphrased, by too many doctors to list.However, there are “SuperFoods” — foods that are THE most powerful, THE most effective at encouraging internal healing, and THE most preventative. While the list is longer than ten, we decided to compile our favorites for help you save money and you in this Special Report.Motivational guru Jim Rohn says, “Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.” Jim is referencing procrastination and success. You must consume these foods regularly to notice any health benefits! In the same way that you can eat junk food on occasion and not suffer any negative consequences health-wise, you can eat these SuperFoods on rare occasion and never see any benefits from your efforts.Consume at least three to five of these SuperFoods daily, if not more, and if not more often!They are that powerful... and they are all found in your local grocery store. There’s nothing “super” about their location, merely their potential impact on your immediate health and body fat levels.Specially, many of the foods cited in this Special Report have been shown clinically to reduce and/or prevent the onset of various diseases, such as cancer, type II diabetes, heart disease, and strokes. They greatly assist in slowing the aging process as well. People who seem to be “forever young” generally consume a large amount of the foods listed in this report.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0061795836

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air." Includes an excerpt from Flight Behavior.

Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set

Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set
Author: Marion Eugene Ensminger
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 2458
Release: 1993-11-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780849389801

Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, Second Edition is the updated, expanded version of what has been described as a "monumental, classic work." This new edition contains more than 2,400 pages; 1,692 illustrations, 96 of which are full-color photographs; 2,800 entries (topics); and 463 tables, including a table of 2,500 food compositions. A comprehensive index enables you to find information quickly and easily.

Ayurveda to the Rescue

Ayurveda to the Rescue
Author: Renu Chaudhary
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-03-19
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1460234367

We are the microcosmic reflection of the macrocosmic universe. Just as a seed carries within it a blueprint for its own replication, we carry cosmic answers within us about our own potential. A centuries-old collection of wisdom, Ayurveda seeks to turn our attention to our inner intelligence for a total health solution comprising strength in the body, clarity in the mind, and freedom of the spirit. This is Ayurveda for the modern world: a simple, clear and meticulously accurate science, philosophy and spirituality all blended into one. It is time to get back to the basics of living life aligned with nature. By using Ayurveda's simple methods, we can take our total well being into our own hands.

Shopping at Giant Foods

Shopping at Giant Foods
Author: Alfred Yee
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295802286

From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in Northern California, only to decline as union regulations and competition from national chains made their operation unprofitable. Alfred Yee’s study of this trajectory is an insider’s view of a fascinating era in Asian American immigration and entrepreneurship. Drawing on oral interviews with individuals who worked in the business during its peak and decline, he presents an accessible history that illustrates how this once-thriving business fostered the social and economic integration of Chinese Americans into life in the United States. Yee demonstrates how Chinese American supermarkets were able to sell American groceries at reduced prices by using the cheap labor of family members and Chinese immigrants whose entry to the United States had been sponsored by their employers. This type of symbiotic relationship was eventually undermined by labor unions’ demands that employees be covered by labor laws and fully compensated for all hours worked. Also contributing to the ultimate demise of Chinese American supermarkets were increasing costs of capitalization and operation, the dominance of national chain stores, and difficulties arising from traditional Chinese methods of business management.