Why a third edition of Preventive Nutrition, and only a few years after the second?
Because the public has developed an insatiable appetite for advice on what foods to eat
and supplements to take, a phenomenon fed in large part by the sensationalist hype every
new “study” receives from the media. And the media are being fed with tantalizing new
data and claims at an accelerating rate.
Unfortunately, although people and policymakers want definitive recommendations,
the vast outpouring of new data arrives in fragmentary (and often contradictory) bites, far
too messy for the individual health professional to assimilate. By synthesizing these latest
data and integrating them into the broad body of existing information, Preventive Nutrition
goes a long way toward orienting health professionals to the field and guiding the advice
they give their patients and the public.