Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Aug 25, 2019

255 - The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen

The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery by Rebecca Katz (Author), Mat Edelson (Author)

The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen features 150 science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects including fatigue, nausea, dehydration, mouth and throat soreness, tastebud changes, and weight loss.

265 - Critical Dietetics and Critical Nutrition Studies

Critical Dietetics and Critical Nutrition Studies (Food Policy) by John Coveney (Editor), Sue Booth (Editor)

This second volume in the Food Policy series focuses on critical nutrition and dietetics studies, offering an innovative and interdisciplinary exploration of the complexities of the food supply and the actors in it through a new critical lens.

268 - Don't Eat This If You're Taking That

Don't Eat This If You're Taking That: The Hidden Risks of Mixing Food and Medicine by Madelyn Fernstrom CNS (Author), John Fernstrom (Author)

NBC Today show nutrition and diet guru Madelyn Fernstrom and award-winning neuroscientist and pharmacologist John Fernstrom -partnering with AARP- present the ultimate guide to food and medicine interaction.

* The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals

The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals: Raising Chickens, Goats, Pigs, Sheep, and Cows by Laura Childs

When the going gets tough, the tough . . . start raising their own food.

Aug 24, 2019

287 - Advances in Food Science and Technology

Advances in Food Science and Technology by Visakh P. M. (Editor), Sabu Thomas (Editor), Laura B. Iturriaga (Editor), Pablo Daniel Ribotta (Editor)

This book comprehensively reviews research on new developments in all areas of food chemistry/science and technology.

* Chemistry in Context by American Chemical Society

Following in the tradition of the first eight editions, the goal of this successful, issues-based textbook, Chemistry in Context, is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing science and the world.

291 - Selenium: Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects

Selenium: Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects (Food and Nutritional Components in Focus) by Victor R Preedy (Editor)

Although toxic in large doses, selenium is an essential trace mineral in the animal diet and in some plants. It has a role in making antioxidant enzymes and a particular role in the functioning of the thyroid gland.

299 - Nanobiotechnology in Food

Nanobiotechnology in Food: Concepts, Applications and Perspectives by Hoda Jafarizadeh-Malmiri (Author), Zahra Sayyar (Author), Navideh Anarjan (Author), Aydin Berenjian (Author)

This text focuses on the many benefits of the use of nanobiotechnology in the food industry.

Aug 23, 2019

* 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily

101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily: Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for You and your Hens by Lisa Steele (Author)

Spoil your chickens and beautify your coop with 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily.

337 - Carrots Don't Grow on Trees

Carrots Don't Grow on Trees: Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities by Robert Turner (Author)

Twelve years after Michael Pollan first opened our eyes to the modern problems of the industrial food complex, organic farmer and successful businessman Robert Turner explores what has changed in our food culture and how the current 'grow local' and 'farm to table' movement is now determining where and how we live.

346 - Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food

Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald (Author), Raoul W. Adamchak (Author)

'Tomorrow's Table' argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture-genetic engineering and organic farming-is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner.

347 - Fundamentals of Food Biotechnology by Byong H. Lee

Food biotechnology is the application of modern biotechnological techniques to the manufacture and processing of food, for example through fermentation of food (which is the oldest biotechnological process) and food additives, as well as plant and animal cell cultures.

348 - Legumes under Environmental Stress

Legumes under Environmental Stress: Yield, Improvement and Adaptations by Parvaiz Ahmad (Editor)

Leguminous crops have been found to contribute almost 27% of the world's primary crop production. However, due to environmental fluctuations, legumes are often exposed to different environmental stresses, leading to problems with growth and development, and ultimately, decreased yield.

356 - North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1

North American Crop Wild Relatives, Volume 1: Conservation Strategies by Stephanie L. Greene (Editor), Karen A. Williams (Editor), Colin K. Khoury (Editor), Michael B. Kantar (Editor), Laura F. Marek (Editor)

The plant species that humans rely upon have an extended family of wild counterparts that are an important source of genetic diversity used to breed productive crops. These wild and weedy cousins are valuable as a resource for adapting our food, forage, industrial and other crops to climate change.

* Bioactive Molecules in Food

Bioactive Molecules in Food (Reference Series in Phytochemistry) by Jean-Michel Mérillon (Editor), Kishan Gopal Ramawat (Editor)

This reference work provides comprehensive information about the bioactive molecules presented in our daily food and their effect on the physical and mental state of our body.

389 - Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens

Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) by Arnaud Bridier (Editor)

This volume presents a compilation of various representative techniques and approaches currently used to study bacterial foodborne pathogens. Chapters guide the reader through bacterial pathogen detection and quantification in food, molecular, phenotypic, metabolic characterization of food pathogens, and ecology of foodborne bacterial pathogens.

Aug 13, 2019

413 - All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer

"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying."

When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine-a cook, collector of thrifted vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt-can't help but wonder: feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer?

414 - Spiritual Adrenaline

Spiritual Adrenaline: A Lifestyle Plan to Nourish and Strengthen Your Recovery by Tom Shanahan (Author)

Personal trainer and sports nutritionist, Tom Shanahan, outlines a program of action to energize, reboot, and strengthen one's recovery, especially those who feel they may have hit a wall in their program.

Aug 10, 2019

423 - The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy

The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy: The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free by Dr. Steven R Gundry M.D. (Author)

From bestselling author Dr. Steven Gundry, a quick and easy guide to The Plant Paradox program that gives readers the tools to enjoy the benefits of lectin-free eating in just 30 days.