Investigating dietary supplements and the industry

摘要

Many Americans have an obsession with vitamins and other dietary supplements, but still eat nutritionally poor diets. Writing in a brisk, humorous style, Catherine Price investigates why. After tracing the discovery of vitamins and their actions, Price explains the long-term effects of nutritional deficiencies. She uses some well known stories about scurvy-ridden sailors and pellagra-inflicted prisoners, and some less familiar tales, such as the transgen-erational epigenetic effects of the Dutch famine of 1944-1945.