<EM>The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health</EM>, second Edition is an authoritative A-to-Z guide to all aspects of nutrition and maintaining a healthy diet. Thoroughly updated, it examines the latest advances in the field, including revised government guidelines and requirements--like the new folate enrichment laws, new research and the discovery of a link between colon cancer and preserved meats but not fresh meats. The new edition contains more than 2,500 entries and approximately 30 percent new material, including several new appendixes. Concise and extensively cross-referenced, this volume is the perfect one-stop guide to the often-confusing mass of nutritional information available today.