Good Grub - food for healthy people and a healthy planet

Edited by Bryan Furnass

If you are interested in what you eat, or your health, or in what food production and distribution do to the planet, or in the ethics or social justice of the same, then this is the book for you. Yes, it is educational, but not dull. It would even make a good present for someone who is concerned about any of the topics above.

Food consumption is closely related to human health in positive and negative ways. Similarly, food production has major impacts on the health of the environment on which we ultimately depend for our survival and wellbeing.

This book traces the story of human nutrition from our hunter-gatherer ancestors, through agricultural developments to our post industrialist age. It promotes understanding about food inequalities, and about healthy choices in food selection, production and distribution.

The message is that major changes in agricultural practice and lifestyle habits are required if we are to attain a sustainable, more equitable and healthier future for ourselves and for the global community.

The editor is a retired physician with a background in internal medicine and an interest in nutrition, exercise and health promotion. In recent years his interests have metamorphosed into what he would like to envisage as a new discipline of external medicine, devoted to the understanding of relationships between the health of humans and the health of their external environment, both locally and globally. It is clear that the survival, health and wellbeing of Homo sapiens ultimately depends on the integrity and sustainability of our habitat.

This book links human nutrition and the effects of production and consumption of food on the health of people and the environment.

Good Grub is Good Value.