Environmental Nutrition: Understanding the Link Between Environment, Food Quality and Disease

Levin, Buck, Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 0967128307 / ISBN 13: 9780967128306

Published by Hingepin Pub, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental Nutrition: Understanding the Link Between Environment, Food Quality and Disease
• Publisher: Hingepin Pub
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0967128307
• ISBN 13: 9780967128306
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 23 ounces

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Synopsis

Environmental Nutrition was written during my early years of teaching in the Nutrition Department of a naturopathic medical school. I wrote it in response to requests from students and fellow dietitians who could not find a textbook-like resource in this area. The miraculous role of food in culture - not only in terms of cuisine but also in terms of cultural traditions and sense of family and community - was something near and dear to my students and important in their personal lives. When rotating through their clinic shifts and helping clients develop the most nourishing meal plans, the theme of food quality typically became just as important in the discussion. And in the case of some health problems, improved food quality proved astonishingly helpful.

Throughout Environmental Nutrition, I try to keep an eye on ecology and the environment, and the principles of wholeness and diversity that underlie the sustainability of many things - including food.

While the 842 indexed journal studies in this book come from a different time period in nutrition - and while I have moved on from this somewhat specialized area at Buck Levin Publications - Environmental Nutrition still does a reasonable job explaining how food quality can become compromised in the absence of ecological thinking and lack of involvement in the world of agriculture. It also provides a reasonable clinical introduction to detoxification, and explains how the course of certain health problems might be changed through more attention to food quality.

 

About the Author

Buck Levin, PhD RD teaches, writes and does research in conventional and unconventional areas of nutrition. For the past 30 years Dr. Levin has been on faculty mostly at Bastyr University. He is also founder of Buck Levin Publications where he focuses on creation of original books, articles, and classroom teaching tools that help explore nutrition and our world.