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Can diets be harmful? / Christine Watkins, book editor.
Series: At issue. Health.Publication details: Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2012.Description: 101 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780737755572 (pbk.) :
- 0737755571 (pbk.) :
- RM222.2 .C27539 2012
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Summary: Provides essays with varying opinions on the health issues surrounding dieting, discussing such topics as fasting, fat acceptance, calorie restricted diets, and juice cleansing.
Dieting can cause health problems / Gretchen Voss -- Calorie restriction improves and extends life / Paul McGlothin and Meredith Averill -- Claims that calorie restricted diets extend life are exaggerated / Tom Venuto -- Vegetarian diets help prevent disease / Winston J. Craig and Ann Reed Mangels -- Vegetarian diets can be problematic / Victoria Anisman-Reiner -- Vegetarian diets do not adversely affect athletes / Jonah Keri -- Fad diets promote unhealthy eating habits / Roberta Larson Duyff -- Fat acceptance promotes well-being / Elizabeth Sutherland -- Fasting and juice cleansing can heal the body / Elson M. Haas -- Broad eating patterns are healthier than restrictive diets / Katherine Hobson -- The emphasis on dieting harms girls / Jeffrey Zaslow -- Mothers' obsession with dieting harms sons as well as daughters / Renee Martinez.
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Provides essays with varying opinions on the health issues surrounding dieting, discussing such topics as fasting, fat acceptance, calorie restricted diets, and juice cleansing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97) and index.
Dieting can cause health problems / Gretchen Voss -- Calorie restriction improves and extends life / Paul McGlothin and Meredith Averill -- Claims that calorie restricted diets extend life are exaggerated / Tom Venuto -- Vegetarian diets help prevent disease / Winston J. Craig and Ann Reed Mangels -- Vegetarian diets can be problematic / Victoria Anisman-Reiner -- Vegetarian diets do not adversely affect athletes / Jonah Keri -- Fad diets promote unhealthy eating habits / Roberta Larson Duyff -- Fat acceptance promotes well-being / Elizabeth Sutherland -- Fasting and juice cleansing can heal the body / Elson M. Haas -- Broad eating patterns are healthier than restrictive diets / Katherine Hobson -- The emphasis on dieting harms girls / Jeffrey Zaslow -- Mothers' obsession with dieting harms sons as well as daughters / Renee Martinez.
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