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Real food : what to eat and why
Planck, Nina
Adult Nonfiction TX360.U6 P63 2006
Planck, Nina
Adult Nonfiction TX360.U6 P63 2006
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| Contents | Page |
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| 1 - I Grow Up on Real Food, Lose My Way, and Come Home Again | p. 1 |
| First I Explain What Real Food Is | p. 1 |
| We Become Vegetable Farmers in Virginia | p. 4 |
| I Am Forced to Eat Homemade Food | p. 7 |
| My Virtuous Diet Makes Me Plump and Grumpy | p. 13 |
| In London I Am Rescued by Farmers' Markets | p. 17 |
| I Discover Weston Price and His Odd Notions | p. 23 |
| Everywhere I Go, People Are Afraid of Real Food | p. 31 |
| 2 - Real Milk, Butter, and Cheese | p. 39 |
| I Am Nursed on the Perfect Food | p. 39 |
| I Remember Milking Mabel the Cow | p. 44 |
| A Short History of Milk | p. 49 |
| I Reply to the Milk Critics | p. 53 |
| Milk, Butter, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease | p. 60 |
| Traditional and Industrial Milk Are Different | p. 67 |
| I Describe the Virtues of Raw Milk | p. 76 |
| I Learn to Appreciate Proper Cheese | p. 82 |
| 3 - Real Meat | p. 87 |
| Why Even Vegetable Farms Need Animals | p. 87 |
| How Factory Farms Wreck the Natural Order | p. 91 |
| Why Grass Is Best (and I Don't Mean for Tennis) | p. 99 |
| The Virtues of Beef, Pork, and Poultry Fat | p. 105 |
| I Try the Winston Churchill Diet | p. 110 |
| I Am Skeptical That Red Meat Causes Cancer | p. 113 |
| Buying and Cooking Real Meat | p. 117 |
| 4 - Real Fish | p. 122 |
| How Our Brains Grew Fat on Fish | p. 122 |
| Life After Salmon: Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease | p. 124 |
| Are You Depressed? Try Eating More Fish | p. 128 |
| The Truth About Fish Farming | p. 131 |
| 5 - Real Fruit and Vegetables | p. 139 |
| Why I Never Rebelled Against Vegetables | p. 139 |
| What Is an Industrial Tomato? | p. 146 |
| I Learn How to Answer the Question: Are You Organic? | p. 151 |
| How to Eat More Vegetables | p. 157 |
| 6 - Real Fats | p. 163 |
| Some Surprising Facts About Fats | p. 163 |
| If You Have Only Two Minutes to Learn About Fats, Read This | p. 167 |
| How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Saturated Fats | p. 174 |
| Please Butter Your Carrots | p. 180 |
| Make Mine Extra-Virgin | p. 183 |
| My Opinion of the Minor Vegetable Oils | p. 187 |
| Coconut Oil Is Good for You | p. 190 |
| 7 - Industrial Fats | p. 196 |
| How the Margarine Makers Outfoxed the Dairy Farmers | p. 196 |
| How Fake Butter Causes Heart Disease | p. 200 |
| Why I Don't Eat Corn, Soybean, or Sunflower Oil | p. 203 |
| I Am Not Convinced by Canola | p. 207 |
| 8 - Other Real Foods | p. 210 |
| The Abominable Egg White Omelet | p. 210 |
| Whole Grains and Real Bread | p. 215 |
| Traditional and Industrial Soy Are Different | p. 225 |
| I Explain the Difference Between Good Salt and Bad | p. 234 |
| Chocolate: The Darker the Better | p. 238 |
| 9 - Beyond Cholesterol | p. 245 |
| What Is Cholesterol? | p. 245 |
| How Cholesterol Became the Villain | p. 249 |
| The Cholesterol Skeptics | p. 253 |
| Diet First, Then Medication | p. 258 |
| A Disease of Deficiency | p. 262 |
| 10 - The Omnivore's Dilemma | p. 269 |
| Where to Find Real Food | p. 276 |
| Further Reading and Resources | p. 283 |
| Notes | p. 290 |
| Glossary | p. 306 |
| Bibliography | p. 316 |
| Appreciation | p. 322 |
| Index | p. 323 |
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