By Ken Albala

ISBN-10: 1452243018

ISBN-13: 9781452243016

The SAGE Encyclopedia of nutrients Issues explores the subject of nutrition throughout a number of disciplines in the social sciences and comparable components together with company, consumerism, advertising, and environmentalism. unlike the prevailing reference works with regards to nutrients that have a tendency to fall into the types of cultural views, this rigorously balanced educational encyclopedia specializes in social and coverage elements of meals construction, safeguard, rules, labeling, advertising, distribution, and intake.  A sampling of normal subject parts lined contains Agriculture, exertions, foodstuff Processing, advertising and marketing and advertisements, alternate and Distribution, Retail and buying, intake, nutrients Ideologies, meals in well known Media, nutrition safeguard, surroundings, overall healthiness, executive coverage, and starvation and Poverty. This encyclopedia introduces scholars to the interesting, and from time to time contentious, and ever-so-vital box regarding foodstuff issues. 

Key Features:

  • Contains nearly 500 signed entries concluding with cross-references and recommendations for additional readings
  • Organized A-to-Z with a thematic “Reader’s consultant” within the entrance topic grouping similar entries through normal subject quarter
  • Provides a source advisor and a close and complete Index besides strong search-and-browse functionality in the digital variation 

This three-volume reference paintings will function a basic, non-technical source for college students and researchers who search to higher comprehend the subject of nutrients and the problems surrounding it.

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