Something to chew on : challenging controversies in food and health / Mike Gibney.

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2012.

xiv, 178 pages ; 24 cm

With regard to food -- Sugar and spice and all things nasty -- Modified foods: genetic or atomic? -- The metrics of food and health -- Personalised nutrition: fitting into your genes -- Plastic babies: the phenomenon of epigenetics -- Your inside is out: food, the gut and health -- A tsunami of lard: the global epidemic of obesity -- Greying matters -- Food and health: the science, policy and politics -- My food, your poison: who sees what in food? -- How the other half dies -- Mankind and mother earth -- Projections and reflections.

Includes bibliographical references and index.