Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition (Taking Sides)

By Marion Nestle

Book Overview

Taking Sides presents current issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072922117
• ISBN13: 9780072922110
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Taking Sides

This is a very basic book that can be used for many classes. I am using it for debates in an advanced human nutrition course, and it is great! The only two drawbacks are that it does not give references for the arguments, and that it is somewhat out of date on some issues (like the food guide pyramid which was recently updated in 2005 after publication). It has stirred up great discussions and helped our class to see both sides of an issue.