77 Myths and Facts About Our Diet

Do bacteria drinks work? Is sugar addictive? Does milk give you cancer? Can E numbers be trusted? Do you lose weight from drinking a lot of water? Is coconut oil healthy? Can you eat nitrate-rich vegetables and fish at the same time? Is raw food better? Food is hot, hardly a day goes by without our food being in the news. Often it concerns hypes in the media or the umpteenth diet that makes consumers no longer know who or what to believe. What is true and what is not? In '77 fables & facts about our food', the latest scientific knowledge and the newest insights provide clear answers to frequently asked questions about our food, foodstuffs and nutrients. Hans JMTC Kraak is editor-in-chief of Voeding Nu. He worked for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Nutrition Centre, among others, and for various media, including seven years as a culinary journalist and fifteen years as a science journalist. Voeding Nu is a platform, consisting of a trade journal, website and newsletter on food, nutrition and health aimed at professionals. Voeding Nu regularly organises symposia on current nutritional issues. Voeding Nu also awards the Good Nutrition Annual Award.