Your Food and You Zim 1957 This is one of those science/health titles all about food. The illustrations are typical 1950s but just weird enough to have me looking twice. Check out the illustration of the woman with a goiter.
Tag: nutrition
Food Facts
Understanding Food The Chemistry of Nutrition Tannenbaum and Stillman 1962 This little retro science book is all about food. This book starts with a discussion of how times have changed and that our ancestors were not as tall and that
Eating Badly
The Junk Food Companion: The Complete Guide to Eating Badly Spitznagel 1999 Submitter: This book is clearly meant to be humorous, but it was shelved right in the middle of the diet books and cook books. It does contain some
Creamy Goodness for the Tummy
The Bland Diet Cookbook Schulz 1978 Back in the olden days before they discovered what the real story of ulcers was all about, bland diets were the go to treatment for just about anything that qualified as “stomach trouble”. I
Counting Calories
The Brand-Name Calorie Counter Netzer 1969 Submitter: Embarrassed to say this is within our library system, although it is part of one of the school libraries and not owned by us. Cover very dated. Don’t know if they even make some
Fabulous Fructose
The fabulous fructose recipe book : Featuring calorie, cholesterol, and sodium counts for all recipes
Cooper and Jones
1979
Submitter: Found this while weeding the cookbook section. I was shocked that a book on cooking with fructose ever existed. Every recipe has fructose added to it including but not limited to rice, carrots, roasted turkey, meatloaf and steamed vegetables!
Holly: Most cookbooks from 1979 are too old for your average public library. I’d weed it on that fact alone.