Overview
This new edition in Lucent's Nutrition and Health series discusses food allergies. The most common food allergies are discussed in detail, as are the physical effects of food allergies (including mild and severe reactions), how people with food allergies stay safe and avoid ingredients they are allergic to, how food allergies are treated and how people, especially kids and teenagers, cope with the social complications that come with having a food allergy. Doctors, researchers, and people living with food allergies are quoted throughout the text and full source citations are provided. Lists of sources for further research - including organizations to contact - are also included, along with a glossary and detailed subject index.
Features & Benefits
- Each contains a topic overview, information about changing trends, up-to-date scientific analysis, and a look at controversies surrounding the featured subject.
- The narrative also contains personal anecdotes, informative sidebars, fact boxes, and statistics that help readers understand these topics and how they impact their bodies and their lives.
- Full-color photographs and detailed tables, charts, graphs and illustrations complement and enhance the text, while ancillary materials such as a glossary, a bibliography and a subject index provide useful tools for further research and discussion.
- Individual volumes focus on a specific health or nutrition-related topic, such as body image, diets and dieting, junk food, or vegetarianism.