Giveaway: Something to Chew On

June 13, 2012 in Giveaways

Something to Chew On by Professor Mike Gibney of UCD In Something to Chew On, Professor Mike Gibney of UCD challenges common misinformation and misconceptions to do with food and health. It deals with the topics of organic food, GM foods, obesity, growing old, the integrity of food research, global warming, global malnutrition, consumer perception of food-borne risk, our gut bacteria, and how nutrition during pregnancy primes us for health in later life.

Something to Chew On is an informative and entertaining book which covers, from a scientific point of view, many worldwide controversies dominating the popular press in relation to the safety and wholesomeness of the modern food chain.

The book is highly suitable for the general reader and will be an invaluable guide to the science of nutrition for students of food and health.

Thanks to Mike Gibney and UCD Press, we have five copies of Something to Chew on to give away! To enter, just leave a comment on this post. One entry per person please – multiple entries will be disqualified. Books can only be posted within Ireland. The winners will be randomly chosen and notified by email. The competition will close at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 June 2012. Good luck!

THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.

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117 responses to Giveaway: Something to Chew On

  1. This sounds very interesting would be a great summer read

  2. Pretty please!

  3. Would love to win this. Finger’s crossed.

  4. Sounds like a great book, I’d love to win a copy! Thanks!

  5. Sounds like a great read and just what I need to make informed choices about my families diet

  6. Sounds interesting. Put my name in the pile please!

  7. As a professional chef I have always been an advocate of “Food as Medicine” and “Food for Health”. I would love to win a copy of ‘Something to Chew On’ and get a new perspective and inside into Professor Gibney’s thinking in this field.

  8. Looks like a very interesting read!

  9. Would love to win a copy of this, sounds like an important read.

  10. I would love to read this – all topics I’m interested in reading about

  11. Sounds Fascinating!

  12. I’m “hungry” for a chance to learn more about the value of food :) )

  13. Sounds interesting – name in the hat!

  14. aw, too late to enter so will just have to buy it, sounds like an interesting read

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