Balanced Diet

A Balanced Diet? attempts to answer the consumer who, when advised to eat one, inevitably responds with the question "What is it?" The concept of a balanced diet may be simply expressed as a diet which provides all the requisite dietary constituents for healthy living and which helps avoid disease states attributable in part to unhealthy eating. An authoritative group of nutritionists and doctors has endeavoured to describe the guidelines along which such a diet may be devised. The authors have tried to face and resolve the many controversies, always with reference to evidence before mere belief. The aim of this book is to equip readers, whether they be doctors, paramedics or ordinary citizens, to confront the enormous body of belief and charlatanism which surrounds them every day and which, all too often, they accept even from their colleagues. --from the back cover.