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Review: Mushrooms as Functional Foods

Mushrooms as Functional Foods
by Peter C. Cheung. Wiley-Interscience, 2008.
First introduced in Japan in the mid-1980s, the concept of “functional foods” suggests that foods are more than mere nutrients, but can have potent effects on the bodily functions of people who consume them. There is now worldwide interest in “food bioactives” that promote good health and [...]

Review: Food Energetics

Food Energetics
The Spiritual, Emotional, and Nutritional Power of What We Eat
by Steve Gagné
Healing Arts Press, 2008
Author Steve Gagne has been publishing books and articles about “Food Energetics” for almost two decades. His Energetics of Food: Encounters with Your Most Intimate Relationship was published in 1990. This latest work, published by Healing Arts Press, is [...]

Review: Eggs and Health Promotion

Eggs and Health Promotion
edited by Ronald R. Watson
Iowa State Press, 2002.
Recent research on eggs and their nutritional properties is beginning to correct decades of damning accusations by scientists and the popular media. Maligned as a cause of high serum cholesterol and heart disease, egg consumption has been effectively discouraged.
The studies and reports collected in this [...]