Nutrition Almanac, Fifth Edition

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Summary: Is there science hiding in here?
Review: I bought this book based upon the Amazon reader recommendations I found here. Now I feel obligated to set the record straight.

While parts of this book are thorough, with lots of hard numbers [though it's difficult to figure out what they mean in a practical sense, and the charts are not lined to assist in their reading], it is also riddled with new age foolishness as directly presented as fact as RDA recommendations -- including homeopathy, aroma therapy, etc. The book's organization leaves me with questioning its entire content. It is also not nearly as complete as I might have hoped in listing nutritional content, leaving out more unusual fruits and vegetables, and glossing over different cuts of meat as largely the same.

It also gives far out of date [at least 20 years?] recommendations for treatment of various diseases and maladies. The treatments I'm aware of, again raise questions about the others.

I will continue my search for thorough -- and scientific, a.k.a. proven, not just testimonial and/or based upon one flawed study -- nutrition elsewhere.

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Summary: Fifth Edition, yet still incomplete.
Review: I've used the Nutrition Almanac, Third Edition, for years. This 'new' addition has very few updates compared to the third. It feels like it's written by someone working strictly with Western Medicine, even though it does give a person direction to some Natural treatments for the listed ailments. Also the book does not go too deeply into describing any vitamin or mineral.

On the positive side, the Table of Food Composition is nice to use, even though it is incomplete. And the layout of the book is quite nice, making it easy to use compared to smaller books.

I'm ordering all the Nutrition books that are highly rated on Amazon from my local library, and when I find the perfect book, I'll post it on my HEALTH Listmania List.

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Summary: garbage
Review: This author is selling a false book based on a book by the identical same name by Kirchman which is an excellent book. I bought the Dunne book by mistake and am now stuck with it. It will now become expensive garbage.

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Summary: Should change the name
Review: This book is about half the size and has about half the information contained in the fourth edition of book with the same name. Get the fourth edition from the same publishers...get much more value for your dollar...and your health!

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Summary: Authoritative, unbiased nutritional information
Review: What I like most about the book is the fact that the author is totally unbiased. He is not trying to sell a diet plan or food supplements or promote anything except solid facts. The author provides detailed tables, charts, etc. on nutrition and health which you can incorporate into your own personal health plan. As a bodybuilder, I found this data valuable in planning my workout routine as well as my nutriitonal plan. If you're looking for sound information on nutrition minus the myths and sales talk, this is the book for you.