"Both individually and as a society," writes journalist Price, "we have been seduced by a word." That word is vitamin, and Price chronicles our love affair with it in riveting detail, from its first appearance in 1912 to its recent co-opting by junk food marketers and snake oil peddlers. What's amazing is how little we know about how vitamins actually work in our bodies, and how much of them we really need. Price doesn't solve these mysteries - no one has, at least not yet - but her investigation, full of scurvy-ridden sailors, questionable nutritional supplements and solid science, is both entertaining and enlightening.
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